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Chemistry

2014

Photochemistry

Selected Works

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Conversion Of Red Fluorescent Protein Into A Bright Blue Probe, Oksana M. Subach, Illia S. Gundorov, Masami Yoshimura, Fedor V. Subach, Jinghang Zhang, David Grunwald, Ekaterina A. Souslova, Dmitriy M. Chudakov, Vladislav V. Verkhusha Nov 2014

Conversion Of Red Fluorescent Protein Into A Bright Blue Probe, Oksana M. Subach, Illia S. Gundorov, Masami Yoshimura, Fedor V. Subach, Jinghang Zhang, David Grunwald, Ekaterina A. Souslova, Dmitriy M. Chudakov, Vladislav V. Verkhusha

David Grünwald

We used a red chromophore formation pathway, in which the anionic red chromophore is formed from the neutral blue intermediate, to suggest a rational design strategy to develop blue fluorescent proteins with a tyrosine-based chromophore. The strategy was applied to red fluorescent proteins of the different genetic backgrounds, such as TagRFP, mCherry, HcRed1, M355NA, and mKeima, which all were converted into blue probes. Further improvement of the blue variant of TagRFP by random mutagenesis resulted in an enhanced monomeric protein, mTagBFP, characterized by the substantially higher brightness, the faster chromophore maturation, and the higher pH stability than blue fluorescent proteins …


Solvent Dependency Of Azobenzene Thermal Relaxation, Chris Corkery, Alexis Goulet-Hanssens, Janet R. Belliveau, Mark Cronin-Golomb, Christopher J. Barrett Apr 2014

Solvent Dependency Of Azobenzene Thermal Relaxation, Chris Corkery, Alexis Goulet-Hanssens, Janet R. Belliveau, Mark Cronin-Golomb, Christopher J. Barrett

Chris Corkery

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Polymer Gel Templating Of Free-Standing Inorganic Monoliths For Photocatalysis, Xiaojuan Fan, Honghan Fei, David Demaree, Daniel Brennan, Jessica St. John, Scott Oliver Feb 2014

Polymer Gel Templating Of Free-Standing Inorganic Monoliths For Photocatalysis, Xiaojuan Fan, Honghan Fei, David Demaree, Daniel Brennan, Jessica St. John, Scott Oliver

Xiaojuan Fan

We have developed a simple, low-cost process to fabricate free-standing porous metal oxide monoliths. Various swollen polymers and hydrogels possessing an open network structure are infiltrated with pure liquid metal alkoxide. Hydrolysis followed by chemical or thermal degradation of the polymer leads to bulk porous monoliths, TiO2 and SiO2 as initial examples. The titania solids were subsequently employed as photocatalysts under UV light and monitored for adsorption. The materials show efficient reusable photocatalytic ability as compared to pure-phase nanoparticle titanium oxide.