Published January 2, 2012 | Version public
Journal Article

Structural Dynamics of Free Amino Acids in Diffraction

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

The amino acid tryptophan exhibits complex structural changes both in the ground state, owing to multiple conformations, and upon excitation, because of the involvement of nonradiative pathways. The first report of structural dynamics using combined ultrafast electron diffraction and laser desorption methods is presented.

Additional Information

© 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag. Received: August 16, 2011. Published online: November 15, 2011. Article first published online: 15 Nov 2011. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the Gordon and Betty Moore Center of Physical Biology at Caltech. We thank Dr. Chi-Kung Ni and Dr. Yuri A. Dyakov for their helpful discussions and the sharing of their calculation results.

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29421
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CaltechAUTHORS:20120222-152751250

Funding

NSF
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Caltech Gordon and Betty Moore Center of Physical Biology

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