Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 7203-7210 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry B |
Volume | 112 |
Issue number | 24 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 19 Jun 2008 |