Extracting rate coefficients from single-molecule photon trajectories and FRET efficiency histograms for a fast-folding protein

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 115, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3642-3656

  Chung, Hoi Sung ^a   Gopich, Irina V ^a   McHale, Kevin ^a   Cellmer, Troy ^a   Louis, John M ^a   Eaton, William A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE PROCEDURES; BIN SIZE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; FAST-FOLDING PROTEINS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; MINOR COMPONENTS; PHOTON TRAJECTORIES; RATE COEFFICIENTS; RECOLORING; RELAXATION RATES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE PHOTONS; TRANSITION PATHS; TRANSITION POINT; TWO-STATE MODEL; WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; FLUOROPHORES; GRAPHIC METHODS; GROWTH KINETICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOLECULES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEINS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAJECTORIES; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

PHOTONS;

ALPHA3D PROTEIN, SYNTHETIC; BIOTIN; PROTEIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTON; PROTEIN FOLDING; SYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOTIN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; STREPTAVIDIN;

EID: 78649562607     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp1009669     Document Type: Article

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