Tilting after dutch windmills: Probably no long-lived davydov solitons in proteins

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-101

  Austin, Robert H ^a   Xie, Aihua ^b   Fu, Dan ^a   Warren, Warren W ^c   Redlich, Britta ^d   Van Der Meer, Lex ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Davydov; Myoglobin; Proteins; Solitons

Indexed keywords

ACETANILIDE; AMIDE; MYOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

EID: 63149126042     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-009-9130-7     Document Type: Article

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