Japan Long-Term Research Visit: Photochemistry of Bacteriorhodopsin

根据这一奖项，伊利诺伊大学生理和生物物理系的Thomas Ebrey教授将在日本花7个月的时间与京田大学的Toru Yoshizawa教授及其同事Akio前田教授合作，开展细菌视紫红质的光化学研究。特别是，他们将研究光如何导致质子泵过细胞膜。他们将检验细菌视紫红质以两种或两种以上依赖于pH的形式存在的假设，并将探索光循环量子效率不同值之间的差异的原因。

Under this award Professor Thomas Ebrey of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the University of Illinois will spend seven months in Japan working with Professor Toru Yoshizawa at Kyota University and his associate, Professor Akio Maeda, conducting research on the photochemistry of bacteriorhodopsin. In particular, they will work on how light causes the pumping of protons across the cell membrane. They will test the hypothesis that bacteriorhodopsin exists in two or more pH dependent forms and will explore explanation for the discrepancies in different values for the quantum efficiency of the photocycle.