Probing the primary event in the photocycle of photoactive yellow protein using photochemical hole-burning technique

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 639-644

  Masciangioli, Tina ^a,c   Devanathan, Savitha ^b   Cusanovich, Michael A ^b   Tollin, Gordon ^b   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; PHOTOACTIVE YELLOW PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; ISOMERISM; LASER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LASERS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0034335322     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)072<0639:PTPEIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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