A novel UV laser-induced visible blue radiation from protein crystals and aggregates: Scattering artifacts or fluorescence transitions of peptide electrons delocalized through hydrogen bonding?

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 428, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 144-153

  Shukla, Anshuman ^a   Mukherjee, Sourav ^a   Sharma, Swati ^a   Agrawal, Vishal ^a   Kishan, K V Radha ^a   Guptasarma, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Blue radiation; Delocalized electrons; Peptide fluorescence; UV illumination

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; HYDROGEN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CHEMICAL BINDING; COLOR; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; EXCITATION; EXPERIMENT; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; LASER; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLID; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTRONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BONDING; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; PEPTIDES; PHOTONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; PYROCOCCUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SHEEP; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 3042828701     PISSN: 00039861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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