Site-specific infrared probes of proteins

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 357-377

  Ma, Jianqiang ^a   Pazos, Ileana M ^b   Zhang, Wenkai ^a   Culik, Robert M ^c   Gai, Feng ^a,b  

^a Ultrafast Optical Processes Laboratory   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

infrared spectroscopy; isotope editing; site specific probe; unnatural amino acid; vibrational coupling; vibrational Stark effect spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; PROBES; PROTEINS;

BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE; INFRARED PROBES; INFRARED: SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPE EDITING; SITE-SPECIFIC; SITE-SPECIFIC PROBE; UNNATURAL AMINO ACIDS; VIBRATIONAL COUPLINGS; VIBRATIONAL MODES; VIBRATIONAL STARK EFFECT SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLECULAR PROBE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR PROBE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR PROBES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 84926459121     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: 15451593     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121802     Document Type: Article

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