Fluorescence approaches for determining protein conformations, interactions and mechanisms at membranes

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Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1078-1092

  Johnson, Arthur E ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol dependent cytolysin (CDC); Conformational changes; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET); Fluoroscence spectroscopy; Membrane; Membrane protein structure; Nascent protein chains; Perfringolysin O (PFO); Protein; Protein membrane interactions

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 27744545622     PISSN: 13989219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2005.00340.x     Document Type: Review

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