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Diphenylhexatriene-phosphatidylcholine fluorescence in POPC vesicles: Comparison of the exponential-series and the maximum-entropy methods
We have investigated the time-resolved fluorescence of diphenylhexatriene (DPH) covalently linked to phosphatidylcholine (PC) in palmitoyloleoylglycerophosphocholine (POPC) vesicles with special consideration ...
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Characterization of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) rev by (time-resolved) fluorescence spectroscopy
Fluorescence spectroscopy has been applied to the single tryptophan-containing regulatory protein Rev of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). The fluorescence emission was found to have a maximum at 336 nm wh...