• 대한화학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.513-519
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• 2007

수용액에서 vesicle을 형성하는 고분자, poly(sodium acrylamidoundecanoate)(PSAU)와 수용성 형광다이, TPADSB-C를 합성하고 흡수 및 형광 분광기를 이용하여 광학적 특성을 연구하였다. N-phenyl naphthylamine을 형광 probe로 사용하여 PSAU의 농도가 0.01 g/L 이상에서 고분자들의 응집에 의해 vesicle을 형성함을 확인하였다. 수용성 형광다이의 형광 특성을 vesicle의 존재유무에 따라 조사함으로써 형광다이 주위의 미세환경의 변화에 따른 광학적 특성 의 변화를 측정하였다. 형광다이를 고분자 vesicle안에 침투시킬 경우 형광체 주변의 미세 환경(극성 등)의 변화에 따라 수용액 대비 발광 파장은 blue-shift하였고 형광 효율도 90%로 증가하였다. 본 연구는 형광다이를 함유하고 있는 고분 자 vesicle이 바이오이메징 응용에 있어 효과적이고 안정적이면서 biocompatible한 레이블용 테그로 사용될 수 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.134-137
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• 2002

PYP consists of a water-soluble apoprotein and 4-hydroxycinnamyl chromophore bound to Cys69 via thiolester linkage, Upon absorption of a photon, the photocycle is initiated, leading to formation of several photo-intermediates. Among them, M intermediate is important to understand the signal transduction mechanism of PYP, because it is a putative signaling state. As well known, the dynamics of a protein is closely correlated with the occurrence of its function. Here we report the results of IO ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for the M intermediate in aqueous solution and discuss the characteristic feature of this state from a viewpoint of structural fluctuation.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.77-81
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• 2004

Deoxygadusol (DO) and structurally related mycosporine-like amino acids, i.e. mycosporine glycine (MO) and mycosporine taurine (MT), were isolated from phytoplankton Prorocentrum micans and studied for the reactivity toward singlet oxygen. These water-soluble compounds with a cyclohexenone chromophore were all shown to be highly effective in quenching singlet oxygen ($^1$ $O_2$), with the efficiencies being significantly larger compared with histidine, a well-known $^1$ $O_2$ quencher. The $^1$ $O_2$ reaction rate constant ( $k_{Q}$) of DG was determined to be 5.4 ${\times}$ 10$^{7}$ $M^{-1}$ $s^{-1}$ by a steady state method based on competitive inhibition of rubrene oxidation. The feasibility of this method was confirmed by estimating the $k_{Q}$ values for MG and two other quenchers, furfuryl alcohol and 1,4-diazabicyclo [2,2,2]octane, and comparing with those values determined by the time-resolved $^1$ $O_2$ decay method in the previous work.ork.