Functional electric field changes in photoactivated proteins revealed by ultrafast Stark spectroscopy of the Trp residues

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

Volumn 106, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7718-7723

  Léonard, Jérémie ^a   Portuondo Campa, Erwin ^b   Cannizzo, Andrea ^b   Van Mourik, Frank ^b   Van Der Zwan, Gert ^c   Tittor, Jörg ^d   Haacke, Stefan ^a   Chergui, Majed ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipolar interactions; Retinal proteins; Tryptophan; Ultraviolet probe

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT; MUTANT; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TRYPTOPHAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 66049111137     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812877106     Document Type: Article

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