Investigations of vibrational coherence in the low-frequency region of ferric heme proteins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2252-2268

  Gruia, Flaviu ^a   Kubo, Minoru ^a   Ye, Xiong ^a   Champion, Paul M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOPROTEIN; IRON; LIGAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; IRON; LIGANDS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 42149133790     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.122119     Document Type: Article

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