Primary Processes in Photobiology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. New Experimental Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Vibrational and Electronic Dephasing Time Measurement with the Use of Temporally Incoherent Light

      • T. Hattori, A. Terasaki, T. Kobayashi

      Pages 2-11

3. Photosynthesis and Phototransformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Energy Gap Law in Electron Transfer Reaction

      • T. Kakitani

      Pages 14-22

   3. Analysis of the Excitation Energy Transfer in Spinach Chloroplasts at Room Temperature

      • M. Mimuro, I. Yamazaki, N. Tamai, T. Yamazaki, Y. Fujita

      Pages 23-32

   4. Photonic Energy Transport in Phycobilin-Chlorophyll System: A Comparative Study with Artificial Multilayer Films

      • I. Yamazaki, N. Tamai, T. Yamazaki, M. Mimuro, A. Murakami, Y. Fujita

      Pages 33-42

   5. Calculations of Spectroscopic Properties and Electron Transfer Kinetics of Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers

      • W. W. Parson, S. Creighton, A. Warshel

      Pages 43-51

   6. Femtosecond Absorption Studies of the Primary Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis and Light- and Dark-Adapted Bacteriorhodopsin

      • J. W. Petrich, J. Breton, J. L. Martin

      Pages 52-60

   7. The Primary Photochemical Reactions in Systems I and II of Photosynthesis

      • H. J. van Gorkom, A. M. Nuijs

      Pages 61-69

   8. Phototransformation Pathway of Phytochrome

      • Y. Inoue

      Pages 70-79

   9. Photochemical Holeburning and Stark Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

      • S. G. Boxer, D. J. Lockhart, T. R. Middendorf

      Pages 80-90

4. Rhodopsin, Sensory Rhodopsin, Phoborhodopsin, and Retinochrome

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Photochemical Primary Process of Octopus Rhodopsin

      • H. Ohtani, T. Kobayashi, M. Tsuda, T. G. Ebrey

      Pages 92-100

   3. Phototaxis and the Second Sensory Pigment in Halobacterium halobium

      • T. Takahashi, H. Tomioka, Y. Nakamori, N. Kamo, Y. Kobatake

      Pages 101-109

   4. Photocycles of Sensory Rhodopsin

      • T. Kobayashi, H. Ohtani, M. Tsuda

      Pages 110-116

   5. Flash Photolysis Study on Sensory Rhodopsin and Phoborhodopsin

      • N. Kamo, H. Tomioka, T. Takahashi, Y. Kobatake

      Pages 117-124

   6. Photochemistry of Retinochrome Studied by Nanosecond and Picosecond Spectroscopy

      • T. Kobayashi, K. Ogasawara, S. Koshihara, K. Ichimura, R. Hara

      Pages 125-133

5. Bacteriorhodopsin

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Determination of Chromophore Structure and Photochemistry in Bacteriorhodopsin with Resonance Raman, NMR, and Chemical Analogues

      • R. A. Mathies, S. O. Smith, G. S. Harbison, J. Herzfeld, R. G. Griffin, J. Lugtenburg

      Pages 136-143

Living things use solar energy in two ways: in the transmission of information and in the conversion of light energy to chemical energy. In order to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of highly sensitive visual responses and other photosensitive responses of biological systems, and the very efficient transduction of photoenergy to chemical energy in photosynthesis, it is important to observe molecular processes in biological systems. Using highly developed laser spectroscopic techniques, great progress has recently been achieved in the area of various primary processes in photobiology. It was therefore an excellent time to hold the 12th Taniguchi International Symposium, Biophysics Division, on Primary Processes in Photobiology. This volume is the proceedings of that symposium. Among the topics discussed are the femtosecond molecular processes in photosynthetic bacteriochlorophyll and the recently discovered intermediates in the photocycles of rhodopsin (found in the visual pigments of many animals), bacteriorhodopsin (found in the proton-pumping pigments of halobacteria) and retinochrome. New techniques for the measurement of the primary processes are also reported.

• Absorption
• Transmission
• chemical reaction
• kinetics
• laser
• metals
• photochemistry
• photosynthesis
• spectroscopy
• structure
• temperature

• Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

  Takayoshi Kobayashi

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