Photoswitching mechanism of a fluorescent protein revealed by time-resolved crystallography and transient absorption spectroscopy

rsEGFP2 is a reversibly photoswitchable fluorescent protein used in super-resolution light microscopy. Here the authors present the structure of an rsEGFP2 ground-state intermediate after excited state-decay that was obtained by nanosecond time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography at an X-ray...

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Main Authors: Joyce Woodhouse, Gabriela Nass Kovacs, Nicolas Coquelle, Lucas M. Uriarte, Virgile Adam, Thomas R. M. Barends, Martin Byrdin, Eugenio de la Mora, R. Bruce Doak, Mikolaj Feliks, Martin Field, Franck Fieschi, Virginia Guillon, Stefan Jakobs, Yasumasa Joti, Pauline Macheboeuf, Koji Motomura, Karol Nass, Shigeki Owada, Christopher M. Roome, Cyril Ruckebusch, Giorgio Schirò, Robert L. Shoeman, Michel Thepaut, Tadashi Togashi, Kensuke Tono, Makina Yabashi, Marco Cammarata, Lutz Foucar, Dominique Bourgeois, Michel Sliwa, Jacques-Philippe Colletier, Ilme Schlichting, Martin Weik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14537-0