Energy transduction on the nanosecond time scale: Early structural events in a xanthopsin photocycle

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5358, 1998, Pages 1946-1950

  Perman, Benjamin ^a   Šrajer, Vukica ^b   Ren, Zhong ^b   Teng, Tsu Yi ^b   Pradervand, Claude ^b   Ursby, Thomas ^c   Bourgeois, Dominique ^d   Schotte, Friederich ^d   Wulff, Michael ^d   Kort, Remco ^e   Hellingwerf, Klaas ^e   Moffat, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e EC Slater Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOPSIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOMERISM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIACEAE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN BONDING; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 7144253808     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5358.1946     Document Type: Article

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