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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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Protein structure by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: second derivative spectra

H Susi, D M Byler

    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
    |August 30, 1983
    PubMed

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