Fluorescent reporter proteins such as green fluorescent protein are valuable noninvasive
molecular tools for in vivo real-time imaging of living specimens. However, their use is …

Since the initial observation of flavin radical species by Michaelis and coworkers~'2), the
involvement of flavins in one-electron oxidation-reduction processes in biological systems …

Using a point‐dipole model, we discuss short‐and long‐range interactions in a 2D array
representing a monolayer. Long‐range forces may be treated exactly if the film is …

Biological membranes are composed of mainly lipids and proteins. The physical properties
of the lipids, forming a bilayer structure, are of crucial importance for the living cell, since the …

An extended hydrogen-bonding (HB) network stabilizes the isoalloxazine ring of the flavin
mononucleotide (FMN) chromophore within the photosensing LOV domain of blue-light …

The electronic singlet− singlet and singlet− triplet electronic transitions of the isoalloxazine
ring of the flavin core are studied using second-order perturbation theory within the …

Ultrafast time-resolved infrared (TRIR) spectra of flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and the
anion of lumiflavin (Lf-) are described. Ground-state recovery and excited-state decay of …

Magnetoreception of the light-dependent magnetic compass in birds is suggested to be
mediated by a radical-pair mechanism taking place in the avian retina. Biophysical models …

The excited states of a flavin-related compound, lumiflavin, were studied by the symmetry-
adapted cluster (SAC)-configuration interaction (CI) method. The absorption peaks observed …

Flavins play a key role as redox cofactors in biology. 1 Figure 1 is a structural diagram for the
common flavin cofactors, all based on the isoalloxazine chromophore, which is capable of …