What can optical spectroscopy contribute to understanding protein dynamics ?

The short answer to the title question is: "a lot". It was transient absorption spectroscopy on geminate recombination in myoglobin that led Hans Frauenfelder to constructing his picture of protein's hierarchical energy landscape [1]. And even before that (in 1973), Joseph Lakowicz an...

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Main Author: Byrdin, Martin
Language:ENG
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00585252
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