THERMAL DECAY OF THE BATHOPRODUCT OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN |
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| Authors: | Boryeu Mao |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract— The photoproduct of bacteriorhodopsin at 77 K is a stable, bathochromically shifted species, K. K begins decaying exclusively to the next bacteriorhodopsin photocycle intermediate, L, near 90 K. The thermal transformation from K to L is estimated to have a low barrier height with an upper limit of 3.8 kcal/mol. |
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