Time-resolved single tryptophan fluorescence in photoactive yellow protein monitors changes in the chromophore structure during the photocycle via energy transfer.

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We show from time-resolved fluorescence intensity and depolarization experiments that the fluorescence of the unique tryptophan W119 of PYP is quenched by energy transfer to the 4-hydroxycinnamoyl chromophore. Whereas the intensity decay has a time constant of 0.18 ns in P, the decay in the absence of the cofactor (apo-PYP) has a single exponential lifetime of 4.8 ns. This difference in lifetime with and without...

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