Espectroscopia en tiempo real de los estados de transición en la bacteriorhodopsina durante la isomerización

T Kobayashi1, T Saito, H Ohtani

  • 1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. kobayashi@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Nature
|December 6, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores observaron directamente el movimiento nuclear durante la fotoisomerización del cromóforo retiniano en la bacteriorhodopsina utilizando pulsos láser de femtosegundo. Esto revela una transición transitorio.

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