Low temperature spectroscopy of proteins. Part II: Experiments with single protein complexes

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-89

  Berlin, Yuri ^a   Burin, Alexander ^b   Friedrich, Josef ^c   Köhler, Jürgen ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformational substates; Energy landscape; Excitons in biomolecules; LH2; Protein spectroscopy; Single molecule spectroscopy; Spectral diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847619298     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2007.01.001     Document Type: Review

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