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Covalent bond formation caught in a LOV photoreceptor
Bence Olasz, Guillaume Gotthard, Probal Nag…·Przemysław Nogły
This paper resolves the mechanism of covalent bond formation in a LOV photoreceptor using time-resolved crystallography and spectroscopy, revealing a water-mediated proton transfer that accelerates the reaction by fourteen orders of magnitude.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.02.742302