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One way that an excited molecule can return to the ground state is to transfer the excitation energy to another molecule. This process, resonance energy transfer, plays a particularly important role in photosynthetic organisms. Extended arrays of pigment-protein complexes in the membranes of plants and photosynthetic bacteria absorb sunlight and transfer energy to the reaction centers, where the energy is trapped in electron-transfer reactions [1–3]. In other organisms, photolyases, which use the energy of blue light to repair ultraviolet damage in DNA, contain a pterin or deazaflavin that transfers energy efficiently to a flavin radical in the active site [4]. A similar antenna is found in cryptochromes, which appear to play a role in circadian rhythms [5]. Because the rate of resonance energy transfer depends on the distance between the energy donor and acceptor, the process also is used experimentally to probe intermolecular distances in biophysical systems [6]. Typical applications are to measure the distance between two proteins in a multienzyme complex or between ligands bound at two sites on a protein or to examine the rate at which components from two membrane vesicles mingle in a fused vesicle. An inquiry into the mechanism of resonance energy transfer also provides insight into the electronic coupling that underlies other time-dependent processes such as electron transfer.

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