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The application of fluorescence spectroscopy to biophysical investigations of protein systems was pioneered by Gregorio Weber nearly four decades ago. In his early work Weber demonstrated the usefulness of intrinsic fluorescence from flavins to study proteins such as diaphorase (Weber, 1948), the applicability of fluorescence probes such as dansyl chloride which could be covalently linked to proteins (Weber, 1952), the utility of probes such as anilinonaphthalene sulfonates which interact non-covalently with proteins (Weber and Laurence, 1954) and the existence and utility of intrinsic protein fluorescence from tyrosine and tryptophan residues (Weber and Teale, 1957). During the past few decades an enormous increase in the number of protein systems studied and in the sophistication of the spectroscopic techniques utilized has occurred; these studies are philosophical and logical continuations of Weber’s initial investigations. Indeed, a significant fraction of the research in the last few decades involving fluorescence approaches to biophysical chemistry has come from Professor Weber’s laboratory.
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Jameson, D.M., Hazlett, T.L. (1989). Fluorescence Investigations on the Elongation Factor Tu System. In: Jameson, D.M., Reinhart, G.D. (eds) Fluorescent Biomolecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5619-6_4
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