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Modulation of the enzyme activity by light is an important task from the fundamental and applied points of view. Light stimulation is widely used in cellular biology and medicine. Absorption of a photon by an enzyme molecule may induce conformational changes and relaxational dynamics, which result from vibrations and rotations during nonradiative transitions. Also, a local “heating” of the enzyme globule in the sub-nanosecond time scale may occur.
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Vekshin, N.L. (2002). Photomodulation of Enzyme Activity. In: Photonics of Biopolymers. Biological and Medical Physics Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04947-1_17
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