PROTEIN DYNAMICS AND FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING

There are both theoretical and experimental data which strongly sugges t that the intramolecular dynamics of the protein matrix play an impor tant role in protein functions. The interrelationship between theory a nd experiments is rather weak mainly because of the lack of relevant e xperimental methods and (model-dependent) misinterpretation of experim ental data. We give a short account of a few fluorescence-quenching te chniques that can provide adequate information concerning protein dyna mics provided that the experimental data sets are correctly processed.