Proteins and their assemblies are fundamental for living cells to function. Their complex
three-dimensional architecture and its stability are attributed to the combined effect of …

Photoinduced reactions play an important role in the photocycle of fluorescent proteins from
the green fluorescent protein (GFP) family. Among such processes are photoisomerization …

This review focuses on the current view of the interaction between the β-barrel scaffold of
fluorescent proteins and their unique chromophore located in the internal helix. The …

Low-barrier hydrogen bonds (LBHBs) are a special type of short hydrogen bond (HB) that is
characterized by the equal sharing of a hydrogen atom. The existence and catalytic role of …

The present Review is an attempt by projecting the basic knowledge on photochemical
proton transfer to achieve consistent understanding of proton motions in biocatalysis …

The photoacid dynamics of fluorescent proteins include both electronic excited-and ground-
state mechanisms of proton transfer. The associated characteristic timescales of these …

Channelrhodopsin (ChR) is a key protein of the optogenetic toolkit. C1C2, a functional
chimeric protein of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ChR1 and ChR2, is the only ChR whose …

Time-resolved infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a widely used technique in the investigation of
photoinduced reactions, given its capabilities of providing structural information about the …

We simulated an excited state proton transfer in green fluorescent protein by excited state ab
initio dynamics, and examined the reaction mechanism in both the time and the frequency …

The Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is a widely studied chemical system both for its large
amount of applications and the complexity of the excited state proton transfer responsible of …