Real-time spectroscopy of transition states in bacteriorhodopsin during retinal isomerization

Nature

Volumn 414, Issue 6863, 2001, Pages 531-534

  Kobayashi, Takayoshi ^a   Saito, Takashi ^a   Ohtani, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ISOMERIZATION; LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ISOMERISM; LASER; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RETINALDEHYDE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 0035969547     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35107042     Document Type: Article

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