Environmental dipolar relaxation during excited state proton transfer in Green Fluorescent Protein
Moona Kurttila, Inês S. Camacho, Athena Zitti, James A. Platts, Javier Garcia-Ruiz, Richard W. Clarke, Christopher R. Pudney, D. Dafydd Jones, Alex R. Jones
The paper shows dipolar relaxation in the protein matrix during ESPT in GFP, which influences the reaction pathway and is on the same timescale as ESPT.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · Feb 16, 2026Peer-reviewedBiophysics