Japan Long-Term Research Visit: Photochemistry of Bacteriorhodopsin

在这个奖项教授托马斯埃布雷的系 生理学和生物物理学的伊利诺伊大学将 我在日本和Toru教授一起工作了七个月 Kyota大学的Yoshizawa教授和他的同事， 前田昭夫，进行光化学的研究， 细菌视紫红质 特别是，他们将研究如何 光引起质子泵送穿过细胞膜。 他们将检验细菌视紫红质存在的假设 以两种或多种pH依赖形式，并将探索 对不同数值差异的解释 光循环的量子效率。

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.