Photoinduced electron transfer in α-helical polypeptides: Dependence on conformation and electron donor-acceptor distance

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1080-1087

  Jones II, Guilford ^a   Zhou, Xin ^a,b   Vullev, Valentine I ^a,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; POLYPEPTIDE; WATER; PEPTIDE; PYRENE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON; KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRONS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PYRENES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 14644390113     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b306490e     Document Type: Article

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47. This is publication no. 15 in the series Photoactive Polypeptides from Boston University.