(A) Photosensor proteins
(1) photoactive yellow protein (PYP)
Conformation change in time-domain, thermodynamics of intermediates
(2) octopus rhodopsin
(3) sensory rhodopsin
(i) sensory rhodopsin from Natronobacterium pharaonis
Reaction scheme and the interaction with the transducer
(ii) Anabaena sensory rhodopsin
(4) LOV proteins
(a) phototropin from Arabidopsis thaliana
(i) Phot1LOV1
dimerization and tetramerization
(ii) Phot1LOV2, Phot1LOV2-linker
conformation changs of the linker (Ja helix)
(iii) Phot2LOV1, Phot2LOV1-hinge
(iv) Phot2LOV2, Phot2LOV2-linker
conformation changs of the linker (Ja helix) and A'a helix
(v) Phot2LOV2-kinase
(vi) Phot2LOV1-LOV2
(b) phototropin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
(c) Aureochrome
Determination of reaction scheme and the dynamics of Aureochrome-LOV
and full length Aureochrome
(d) FKF1
Determination of reaction scheme and the dynamics, Role of the linker
region
(e) YtvA
(5) BLUF proteins
(a) YcgF
(b) AppA
Time-resoleved detection of dimerization reaction
(c) PixD
(i) SyPixD
Determination of reaction scheme and the dynamics
(ii) TePixD
Determination of reaction scheme and the dynamics, Role of fluctuation
(d) PapB
Interaction with PapA
(6) chryptochrome
Time-resoleved detection of conformation change
(7) Phytochrome
(a) Phytochrome of plants
(b) bacteriophytochrome
(8) UVR8
(B) Sensor proteins
(1) Calmoduline
(2) HemAT
(C) Energy conversion
(1) reaction center
(2) halorhodopsin
(D) DNA repair
photolyase
Dynamics of the preotien and repaired DNA
(E) Protein folding
(1) cytochrome c
(2) apo-plastocyanin
(F) ligand dissociation
myoglobin
Determination of ligand escape route
(G) Crowding effect of protein reactions
(1) TePixD
(2) Phot2LOV2, Phot2LOV2-linker
(H) Physical chemistry of proteins
(1) protein diffusion
(2) energy transfer from photoexcited protein to solvent: Myoglobin
(3) polypeptide diffusion
(4) diffusion of DNA
(I) Photoresponsive DNA
Kinetics of dissociation and recombination
(1) Time-resolved enthalpy change
(2) Time-resolved partial molar volume change
(3) Time-resolved heat capacity change
(4) Time-resolved thermal expansion coefficient
(5) Time-resoled compressibility
(6) Time-resolved diffusion coefficient
(1) transient radicals
(2) organic molecules in the excited states
(1) Release of caged proton
(2) Reaction of caged ATP
(3) Trans-cis photoisomerization of azobenzens
(4) Enol-keto photoisomerization
(5) Transient radicals
(6) pH-jump reaction
(7) reaction in supercritical fluids
Development of transient grating or transient lens methods
Elementary step of the photothermal effect in solution
(Energy transfer process from the photoexcited molecule to solvent molecules)
(1) Development of new techniques:
(a) temperature grating
(b) temperature lens
(c) acoustic peak delay
(d) molecular heater-molecular thermometer system
(2) Molecular mechanism of the photothermal effect in solution
(3) Photothermal effect and structural change inside glass
(1) Density lens
(2) Temperature lens
(3) Optical Kerr lens
(4) Volume lens
(5) Population lens
(1) Molecular diffusion at solid/liquid and gas/liquid interfaces
(2) time-resolved detection of capillary wave at gas/liquid interface
Time-resolved EPR
CIDNP detection of EPR
Detection of the excited triplet state of isolated molecule (Supersonic expansion)
Creation of nanoparticles under high temperature and high pressure
Relaxation of energy of semi-conductor material
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