Correlation of tryptophan fluorescence spectral shifts and lifetimes arising directly from heterogeneous environment

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3245-3253

  Pan, Chia Pin ^a   Muiño, Pedro L ^b,c   Barkley, Mary D ^a   Callis, Patrik R ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITED STATES; ION EXCHANGE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PEPTIDES; QUANTUM THEORY; QUENCHING;

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; AVERAGE ENERGY; AVERAGE LIFETIME; BLUE-SHIFTED; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLE; CONFORMATIONAL HETEROGENEITY; CONFORMATIONAL POPULATION; DECAY COMPONENTS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTROSTATIC ENVIRONMENTS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FLUORESCENCE DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; FLUORESCENCE WAVELENGTH; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HEXAPEPTIDES; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LONG LIFETIME; MOLECULAR MECHANICS SIMULATION; MULTIPLE GROUNDS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RED-SHIFTED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROTAMERS; SIDE CHAINS; SPECTRAL SHIFT; STATE POPULATION; TRYPTOPHAN FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79953056261     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp111925w     Document Type: Article

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