Molecular scale conductance photoswitching in engineered bacteriorhodopsin

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 899-903

  Berthoumieu, Olivia ^a   Patil, Amol V ^b   Xi, Wang ^b   Aslimovska, Lubica ^a   Davis, Jason J ^b   Watts, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriorhodopsin; conducting atomic force microscopy; molecular conductance photoswitching; wavelength sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; BACTERIORHODOPSIN (BR); CONDUCTING AFM; CONDUCTING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DRY STATE; GOLD ELECTRODES; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR SCALE; NANODEVICE APPLICATIONS; PHOTOACTIVITY; PHOTOSWITCHING; PROTON PUMP; PURPLE MEMBRANES; SURFACE STABILITY; WAVELENGTH SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACIDS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISORPTION; OLIGOMERS;

GOLD;

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; GOLD;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; GOLD; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84856965102     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl203965w     Document Type: Article

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