Protein Fluorescence

Dr. J.R. Lakowicz is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Dr. Lakowicz has published over 400 scientific articles, has edited numerous books, holds 16 issued patents, and is the sole author of the widely used text, Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, also published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, now in its Second Edition.

• Intrinsic Fluorescence of Proteins.- Spectral Enhancement of Proteins by in vivo Incorporation of Tryptophan Analogues.- Room Temperature Tryptophan Phosphorescence as a Probe of Structural and Dynamic Properties of Proteins.- Azurins and Their Site-Directed Mutants.- Barnase: Fluorescence Analysis of A Three Tryptophan Protein.- Fluorescence Study of the DsbA Protein from Escherichia Coli.- The Conformational Flexibility of Domain III of Annexin V is Modulated by Calcium, pH and Binding to Membrane/Water Interfaces.- Tryptophan Calmodulin Mutants.- Luminescence Studies with trp Aporepressor and Its Single Tryptophan Mutants.- Heme-Protein Fluorescence.- Conformation of Troponin Subunits and Their Complexes from Striated Muscle.- Fluorescence of Extreme Thermophilic Proteins.