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Science 7 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5783, pp. 51 - 52
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130124
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CHEMISTRY:
From Electron Pump to Proton Channel

Kazushi Kinbara and Takuzo Aida

An artificial chemical system can mimic biological systems and pump electrons across a membrane in response to light. The same system can easily be modified so that it behaves like a channel for protons.

The authors are in the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, and the Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan. E-mail: aida{at}macro.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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