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Proton Transfer and Protein Conformation Dynamics in Photosensitive Proteins by Time-resolved Step-scan Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy
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Proton Transfer and Protein Conformation Dynamics in Photosensitive Proteins by Time-resolved Step-scan Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Published on: June 27, 2014

Origin of the absorption maxima of the photoactive yellow protein resolved via ab initio multiconfigurational methods

Pedro B Coto, Sergio Martí, Mónica Oliva

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
    |May 30, 2008
    PubMed

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