Search Results - "Larsen, Delmar"
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Photoreceptors Take Charge: Emerging Principles for Light Sensing
Published in Annual review of biophysics (20-05-2018)“…The first stage in biological signaling is based on changes in the functional state of a receptor protein triggered by interaction of the receptor with its…”
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Correlating structural and photochemical heterogeneity in cyanobacteriochrome NpR6012g4
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-04-2018)“…Phytochrome photoreceptors control plant growth, development, and the shade avoidance response that limits crop yield in highdensity agricultural plantings…”
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Two-photon brightness of azobenzene photoswitches designed for glutamate receptor optogenetics
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-02-2015)“…Mammalian neurotransmitter-gated receptors can be conjugated to photoswitchable tethered ligands (PTLs) to enable photoactivation, or photoantagonism, while…”
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Global and target analysis of time-resolved spectra
Published in BBA - Bioenergetics (09-07-2004)“…In biological/bioenergetics research the response of a complex system to an externally applied perturbation is often studied. Spectroscopic measurements at…”
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Not All Photoactive Yellow Proteins Are Built Alike: Surprises and Insights into Chromophore Photoisomerization, Protonation, and Thermal Reisomerization of the Photoactive Yellow Protein Isolated from Salinibacter ruber
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (24-11-2021)“…We demonstrate that the Halorhodospira halophila (Hhal) photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is not representative of the greater PYP family. The photodynamics of…”
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Evolution of Physical and Photocatalytic Properties in the Layered Titanates A2Ti4O9 (A = K, H) and in Nanosheets Derived by Chemical Exfoliation
Published in Chemistry of materials (09-02-2010)“…K2Ti4O9 has been known as a photocatalyst for the oxidation of methanol under UV irradiation. Here we study the evolution of morphology, optical, and…”
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Dynamic Inhomogeneity in the Photodynamics of Cyanobacterial Phytochrome Cph1
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (06-05-2014)“…Phytochromes are widespread red/far-red photosensory proteins well known as critical regulators of photomorphogenesis in plants. It is often assumed that…”
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Sequestering High-Energy Electrons to Facilitate Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation in CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (03-11-2011)“…The photocatalytic H2O splitting activities of CdSe and CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots are contrasted. CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots constructed from 4.0…”
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Comparison of the Forward and Reverse Photocycle Dynamics of Two Highly Similar Canonical Red/Green Cyanobacteriochromes Reveals Unexpected Differences
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (02-02-2021)“…Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are cyanobacterial photoreceptors that exhibit photochromism between two states: a thermally stable dark-adapted state and a…”
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Protonation Heterogeneity Modulates the Ultrafast Photocycle Initiation Dynamics of Phytochrome Cph1
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (21-06-2018)“…Phytochrome proteins utilize ultrafast photoisomerization of a linear tetrapyrrole chromophore to detect the ratio of red to far-red light. Femtosecond…”
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Femtosecond Ligand/Core Dynamics of Microwave-Assisted Synthesized Silicon Quantum Dots in Aqueous Solution
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (28-12-2011)“…A microwave-assisted reaction has been developed to produce hydrogen-terminated silicon quantum dots (QDs). The Si QDs were passivated for water solubility via…”
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Packing Dependent Electronic Coupling in Single Poly(3-hexylthiophene) H- and J‑Aggregate Nanofibers
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (25-04-2013)“…Nanofibers (NFs) of the prototype conjugated polymer, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), displaying H- and J-aggregate character are studied using temperature- and…”
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Femtosecond Photodynamics of the Red/Green Cyanobacteriochrome NpR6012g4 from Nostoc punctiforme. 1. Forward Dynamics
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (17-01-2012)“…Phytochromes are well-known red/far-red photosensory proteins that utilize the photoisomerization of a linear tetrapyrrole (bilin) chromophore to detect the…”
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Computational and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Photocycle of an Artificial Rhodopsin
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (04-06-2020)“…The photocycle of a reversible photoisomerizing rhodopsin mimic (M2) is investigated. This system, based on the cellular retinoic acid binding protein, is…”
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Femtosecond Photodynamics of the Red/Green Cyanobacteriochrome NpR6012g4 from Nostoc punctiforme. 2. Reverse Dynamics
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (17-01-2012)“…Phytochromes are red/far-red photosensory proteins that utilize photoisomerization of a linear tetrapyrrole (bilin) chromophore to photoconvert reversibly…”
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Excited-State Self-Trapping and Ground-State Relaxation Dynamics in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Resolved with Broadband Pump–Dump–Probe Spectroscopy
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (03-11-2011)“…Broadband femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy is used to explore the mechanisms underlying excited-state and ground-state exciton relaxation in…”
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Ultrafast Spintronics: Dynamics of the Photoisomerization-Induced Spin–Charge Excited-State (PISCES) Mechanism in Spirooxazine-Based Photomagnetic Materials
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (20-09-2018)“…The optical control of spin state is of interest in the development of spintronic materials for data processing and storage technologies. Photomagnetic effects…”
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Calcium Niobate Semiconductor Nanosheets as Catalysts for Photochemical Hydrogen Evolution from Water
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (11-10-2007)“…We have studied the photochemical water splitting activity of individually dispersed, semiconductor nanosheets derived from the Dion−Jacobsen phase HCa2Nb3O10…”
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Excitation-Wavelength-Dependent Photocycle Initiation Dynamics Resolve Heterogeneity in the Photoactive Yellow Protein from Halorhodospira halophila
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (20-03-2018)“…Photoactive yellow proteins (PYPs) make up a diverse class of blue-light-absorbing bacterial photoreceptors. Electronic excitation of the p-coumaric acid…”
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Second-Chance Forward Isomerization Dynamics of the Red/Green Cyanobacteriochrome NpR6012g4 from Nostoc punctiforme
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-01-2012)“…The primary ultrafast Z-to-E isomerization photodynamics of the phytochrome-related cyanobacteriochrome NpR6012g4 from Nostoc punctiforme was studied by…”
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