Search
Search Results
-
Engineering yeast with a light-driven proton pump system in the vacuolar membrane
BackgroundThe supply of ATP is a limiting factor for cellular metabolism. Therefore, cell factories require a sufficient ATP supply to drive...
-
Formylation boosts the performance of light-driven overcrowded alkene-derived rotary molecular motors
Artificial molecular motors and machines constitute a critical element in the transition from individual molecular motion to the creation of...
-
Ultrafast formation dynamics of D3+ from the light-driven bimolecular reaction of the D2–D2 dimer
The light-driven formation of trihydrogen cation has been attracting considerable attention because of its important role as an initiator of chemical...
-
Catalyst self-assembly accelerates bimetallic light-driven electrocatalytic H2 evolution in water
Hydrogen evolution is an important fuel-generating reaction that has been subject to mechanistic debate about the roles of monometallic and...
-
Controlled radical copolymerization of fluoroalkenes by using light-driven redox-relay catalysis
Fluoroalkenes are feedstocks in the manufacture of high-performance fluoropolymers with various applications. However, the synthesis of well-defined...
-
Time-resolved photoacoustics of channelrhodopsins: early energetics and light-driven volume changes
In biological photoreceptors, the energy stored in early transient species is a key feature to drive the photocycle or a chain of reactions....
-
Towards low-energy-light-driven bistable photoswitches: ortho-fluoroaminoazobenzenes
Thermally stable photoswitches that are driven with low-energy light are rare, yet crucial for extending the applicability of photoresponsive...
-
Mirror proteorhodopsins
Proteorhodopsins (PRs), bacterial light-driven outward proton pumps comprise the first discovered and largest family of rhodopsins, they play a...
-
A critique of the capacitor-based “Transmembrane Electrostatically Localized Proton” hypothesis
In his Transmembrane Electrostatically Localized Proton hypothesis (TELP), James W. Lee has modeled the bioenergetic membrane as a simple capacitor....
-
Composite Proton Exchange Membrane for Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Fuel cell, converting chemical energy into electrical energy, has been regarded as promising next generation energy conversion devices.
-
Tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibres for visible-light-driven hydrogen production
The creation of efficient artificial systems that mimic natural photosynthesis represents a key current challenge. Here, we describe a...
-
Expression of Xanthorhodopsin in Escherichia coli
Xanthorhodopsin (XR) from Salinibacter ruber is a light-driven proton pump containing retinal and a light-harvesting carotenoid antenna...
-
-
Repurposing harmaline as a novel approach to reverse tmexCD1-toprJ1-mediated tigecycline resistance against klebsiella pneumoniae infections
BackgroundA novel plasmid-mediated resistance–nodulation–division (RND) efflux pump gene cluster tmexCD1-toprJ1 in Klebsiella pneumoniae ...
-
Nonadiabatic quantum dynamics of the coherent excited state intramolecular proton transfer of 10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinoline
AbstractThe photoinduced nonadiabatic dynamics of the enol-keto isomerization of 10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinoline (HBQ) are studied computationally using...
-
Isolation and characterization of a main porin from the outer membrane of Salinibacter ruber
Salinibacter ruber is an extremophilic bacterium able to grow in high-salts environments, such as saltern crystallizer ponds. This halophilic...
-
Parallel transmission in a synthetic nerve
Bioelectronic devices that are tetherless and soft are promising developments in medicine, robotics and chemical computing. Here, we describe...
-
Exciton Transport and Interfacial Charge Transfer in Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Heterostructures
Quantum confined semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), in particular, zero-dimensional (0D) quantum dots, one-dimensional (1D) nanorods, and...
-
Ultrafast transient absorption and solvation of a super-photoacid in acetoneous environments
The phenomenon of photoacidity, i.e., an increase in acidity by several orders of magnitude upon electronic excitation, is frequently encountered in...
-
Visible-light driven hydrogen production using chlorophyll derivatives conjugated with a viologen moiety in the presence of platinum nanoparticles
The utilization of the light-harvesting and electron-transferring function of chlorophylls (Chls) has received attention for visible-light driven...