Transient protein softening during the working cycle of a molecular machine

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Pieper, Jörg ^a   Buchsteiner, Alexandra ^b   Dencher, Norbert A ^c   Lechner, Ruep E ^b,c   Hauß, Thomas ^b,c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PUMPING (LASER);

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); BACTERIORHODOPSIN (BR); IN SITU ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR MACHINES; PHOTOCYCLE; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; PROTEIN DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; PUMP PROBE EXPERIMENTS; QUASI ELASTIC (QENS) NEUTRON SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT; WORKING CYCLE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 44949181723     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.228103     Document Type: Article

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