Functional waters in intraprotein proton transfer monitored by FTIR difference spectroscopy

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7072, 2006, Pages 109-112

  Garczarek, Florian ^a   Gerwert, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ENZYMES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BONDS; PROTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN6; FTIR DIFFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL WATERS; GAS-PHASE WATER CLUSTERS; GROTTHUSS PROTON TRANSFER;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL GROUP; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 18; PROTEIN; PROTON; WATER;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE; LIQUID; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT;

EID: 30144445932     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04231     Document Type: Article

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