Themed Issue: Photofunctional proteins

Our latest themed issue on Photofunctional proteins: from understanding to engineering, is now online.  The issue was guest edited by Professors Aba Losi, Cristiano Viappiani and Santi Nonell.

It contains various topics such as optogenetics where light-gated proteins originally designed by nature, also known as photoreceptors,are exploited as tools to elegantly photomodulate cell activities. Other topics cover fluorescent proteins and its applications in genetic engineering. Fluorescent proteins have revolutionized the field of molecular biology and in fact this was recognized with the 2008 Nobel Prize awarded to the pioneers in the field Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien.

We hope that you will find this themed issue on photofunctional proteins an enjoyable read.

 

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Solar disinfection of wastewater

Fernández-Ibáñez and co-workers showed that F. equiseti chlamydospores in distilled and simulated municipal wastewater effluent were inactivated with 10 mg L−1 of H2O2 in a 60 L CPC photoreactor. They explained that the use of low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and CPC systems may be a good alternative for disinfection of resistant microorganisms in water.   

Download the full article here. This paper is published as part of the themed issue of contributions from the 6th European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 2010. 
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Top ten most accessed articles in July

This month sees the following articles in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences that are in the top ten most accessed:-

Highly emissive metal organic framework composites by host-guest chemistry 
Maike Müller, André Devaux, Cheng-Han Yang, Luisa De Cola and Roland A. Fischer 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 846-853, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00070A

Iridium(iii) luminophores as energy donors for sensitised emission from lanthanides in the visible and near-infrared regions 
Nicholas M. Tart, Daniel Sykes, Igor Sazanovich, Ian S. Tidmarsh and Michael D. Ward 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 886-889, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00011F

Novel photosensitisers derived from pyropheophorbide-a: uptake by cells and photodynamic efficiency in vitro 
Ioanna Stamati, Marina K. Kuimova, Mattia Lion, Gokhan Yahioglu, David Phillips and Mahendra P. Deonarain 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1033-1041, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00038H  

Probing the interactions between disulfide-based ligands and gold nanoparticles using a functionalised fluorescent perylene-monoimide dye 
Julien R. G. Navarro, Marcel Plugge, Matthieu Loumaigne, Angel Sanchez-Gonzalez, Benedetta Mennucci, Anne Débarre, Albert M. Brouwer and Martinus H. V. Werts 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1042-1054, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00063A

A photo- and electrochemically-active porphyrin-fullerene dyad electropolymer 
Miguel Gervaldo, Paul A. Liddell, Gerdenis Kodis, Bradley J. Brennan, Christopher R. Johnson, James W. Bridgewater, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore and Devens Gust 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 890-900, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00013B

Human Safety Review of “Nano” Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide 
Karsten Schilling, Bobbie Bradford, Dominique Castelli, Eric Dufour, J. Frank Nash, Wolfgang Pape, Stefan Schulte, Ian Tooley, Jeroen van den Bosch and Florian Schellauf 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 495-509, DOI: 10.1039/B9PP00180H  

Exploring the effects of solvent polarity on the rate of Förster-type electronic energy transfer in a closely-spaced molecular dyad  
Anthony Harriman and Raymond Ziessel 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 960-967, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00062K

Transduction of excited state energy between covalently linked porphyrins and phthalocyanines 
Anita Hausmann, Ana R. M. Soares, M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Maria G. P. M. S. Neves, Augusto C. Tomé, José A. S. Cavaleiro, Tomas Torres and Dirk M. Guldi 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1027-1032, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00060D

Generalized solvent scales as a tool for investigating solvent dependence of spectroscopic and kinetic parameters. Application to fluorescent BODIPY dyes 
Aleksander Filarowski, Małgorzata Kluba, Katarzyna Cieślik-Boczula, Aleksander Koll, Andrzej Kochel, Lesley Pandey, Wim M. De Borggraeve, Mark Van der Auweraer, Javier Catalán and Noël Boens 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 996-1008, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00035C

Distance and orientation dependence of photoinduced electron transfer through twisted, bent and helical bridges: a Karplus relation for charge transfer interaction 
René M. Williams 
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1018-1026, DOI: 10.1039/C0PP00050G 

Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.

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Issue dedicated to Professor Jan Verhoeven

The July issue of Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences is a themed issue dedicated to Jan Verhoeven in honour of the contributions he has made to science, and in particular to the field of molecular photophysics. The issue is Guest Edited by Anthony Harriman from Newcastle University, UK, and the papers in the issue are from his many colleagues who have had, and continue to benefit from, the privilege to work alongside Professor Jan Verhoeven.

To view all of the Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences themed issues visit our website.

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