Ultrafast excited-state isomerization in phytochrome revealed by femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1784-1789

  Dasgupta, Jyotishman ^a   Frontiera, Renee R ^a   Taylor, Keenan C ^b   Lagarias, J Clark ^b   Mathies, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Photochemistry; Photoisomerization; Photosensory proteins; Plant signal transduction; Time resolved vibrational spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROGEN; PHYTOCHROME;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; ISOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN KINASES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 60549088102     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812056106     Document Type: Article

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