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Multicolour near-infrared femtosecond experiments of a genetically modified bacterial reaction centre show that the phase of two excited-state vibrational modes is conserved for a period of picoseconds over a large range of temperatures. The direct visualization of low-frequency nuclear vibrations in this protein, which is embedded in its natural membrane, implicates coherent nuclear motion in the primary electron transfer reaction in functional reaction centres.
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Vos, M., Rappaport, F., Lambry, JC. et al. Visualization of coherent nuclear motion in a membrane protein by femtosecond spectroscopy. Nature 363, 320–325 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/363320a0
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