Conductance switching in the photoswitchable protein Dronpa

Katalin V Korpany; Pinky Langat; Dong Myeong Kim; Neil Edelman; Daniel R Cooper; Jay Nadeau; Amy Szuchmacher Blum

doi:10.1021/ja306031n

Conductance switching in the photoswitchable protein Dronpa

J Am Chem Soc. 2012 Oct 3;134(39):16119-22. doi: 10.1021/ja306031n. Epub 2012 Sep 19.

Authors

Katalin V Korpany¹, Pinky Langat, Dong Myeong Kim, Neil Edelman, Daniel R Cooper, Jay Nadeau, Amy Szuchmacher Blum

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada.

PMID: 22967233
DOI: 10.1021/ja306031n

Abstract

Dronpa, a photoswitchable GFP-like protein, was self-assembled onto gold substrates, and its conductance was measured using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Darkness
Electric Conductivity*
Green Fluorescent Proteins / chemistry*
Green Fluorescent Proteins / metabolism*
Light*
Models, Molecular
Protein Conformation

Substances

Green Fluorescent Proteins