화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.112, No.24, 7203-7210, 2008
Origin of the nonexponential dynamics of excited-state proton transfer in wt-green fluorescent protein
We used an inhomogeneous excited-state proton-transfer kinetics model to explain the origin of the non-exponential time-resolved emission of the A-band of wt-green fluorescence protein. The calculated fit is rather good for both H2O and D2O samples in a wide temperature range of 80-229 K. We attribute the inhomogeneous kinetics to the distance dependence of the excited-state proton-transfer rate between the proton donor (the hydroxyl group of the chromophore) and the oxygen of a nearby water molecule.