Picosecond fluorescence relaxation spectroscopy of the calcium-discharged photoproteins aequorin and obelin

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 10486-10491

  Van Oort, Bart ^a   Eremeeva, Elena V ^a,b   Koehorst, Rob B M ^a   Laptenok, Sergey P ^a   Van Amerongen, Herbert ^a   Van Berkel, Willem J H ^a   Malikova, Natalia P ^b   Markova, Svetlana V ^b   Vysotski, Eugene S ^b   Visser, Antonie J W G ^a   Lee, John ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING CAVITY; CALCIUM IONS; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE TRANSIENTS; FLUORESCENCE TRANSITIONS; FLUORESCENT SPECIES; LOWER ENERGIES; NEUTRAL STATE; PHOTOPROTEINS; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; PICOSECONDS; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENT;

CALCIUM ALLOYS; CAMERAS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER EXCITATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CALCIUM;

AEQUORIN; CALCIUM; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SPECTROSCOPY; STEADY STATE;

AEQUORIN; CALCIUM; HALF-LIFE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 70449390561     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901436m     Document Type: Article

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