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  1. H. Nagae, M. Kuki, J.-P. Zhang, T. Sashima, Y. Mukai and Y. Koyama
    "Vibronic Coupling through the In-Phase, C=C Stretching Mode Plays a Major Role in the 2Ag- - to - 1Ag- Internal Conversion of All-Trans-    b-Carotene"
    J. Phys. Chem. A104 (2000) 4155-4166.
  2. K. Onaka, R. Fujii, H. Nagae, M. Kuki, Y. Koyama and Y. Watanabe
    "The State Energy and the Displacements of the Potential Minima of the 2Ag- State in All-Trans-    b-Carotene as Determined by Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 315 (1999) 75-81.
  3. T. Sashima, H. Nagae, M. Kuki and Y. Koyama
    "A New Singlet-Excited State of All-Trans-Spheroidene as Detected by Resonance Raman Excitation Profiles"
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 299 (1999) 187-194.
  4. M. Komori, R. Ghosh, S. Takaichi, Y. Hu, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Koyama and M. Kuki
    "A Null Lesion in the Rhodopin 3,4-Desaturase of Rhodospirillun rubrum Unmasks a Cryptic Branch of the Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathway
    Biochem. 37 (1998) 8987-8994.
  5. R. Fujii, K. Onaka, M. Kuki, Y. Koyama and Y. Watanabe
    "The 21Ag- Energies of All-Trans-Neurosporene and Spheroidene as Determined by Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 288 (1998) 847-853.
  6. N. Ohashi, N. Ko-chi, M. Kuki, T. Shimamura, R. J. Cogdell and Y. Koyama
    "The Structures of S0 Spheroidene in the Light-Harvesting (LH2) Complex and S0 and T1 Spheroidene in the Reaction Center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 as Revealed by Raman Spectroscopy"
    Biospectrosc. 2 (1996) 59-69.
  7. Y. Koyama, M. Kuki, P. O. Andersson and T. Gillbro
    "Singlet Excited States and the Light Harvesting Function of Carotenoids in Bacterial Photosynthesis"
    Photochem. Photobiol. 63 (1996) 243-256.
  8. M. Kuki, M. Naruse, T. Kakuno and Y. Koyama
    "Resonance Raman Evidence for 15-Cis to All-Trans Photoisomerization of Spirilloxanthin Bound to a Reduced form of the Reaction Center of Rhodospirillum rubrum S1"
    Photochem. Photobiol. 62 (1995) 502-508.
  9. Y. Koyama, E. Nishizawa, M. Kuki and H. Nagae
    "Solvent Effects and Vibronic Coupling of ag-Type Stretching Vibrations in T1 Bacteriochlorophyll a and S0- and S1-Spheroidene: Environment of These Pigments in the LH2 Complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
    In "Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy VI" (1994) 215-218.
  10. H. Nagae, M. Kuki, R. J. Cogdell and Y. Koyama
    Shifts of the 1Ag-     (I.(B 1Bu+ Electronic Absorption of Carotenoids in Non-Polar and Polar Solvents
    J. Chem. Phys. 101 (1994) 6750-6765.
  11. M. Kuki, H. Nagae, R. J. Cogdell, K. Shimada and Y. Koyama
    "Solvent Effects on Spheroidene in Non-Polar and Polar Solutions and the Environment of Spheroidene in the Light-Harvesting Complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 as Revealed by the Energy of the 1Ag-     (I.(B 1Bu+ Absorption and the Frequencies of the Vibronically-Coupled C=C Stretching Raman Lines in the 1Ag- and 21Ag- States"
    Photochem. Photobiol. 59 (1994) 116-124.
  12. H. Hashimoto, Y. Miki, M. Kuki, T. Shimamura, H. Utsumi and Y. Koyama
    "Isolation by High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography of the Cis-Trans Isomers of     b-Apo-8'-Carotenal, Determination of Their S0-State Configurations by NMR Spectroscopy, and Prediction of Their S1- and T1-State Configurations by Transient Raman Spectroscopy"
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115 (1993) 9216-9225.
  13. Y. Watanabe, T. Kameyama, Y. Miki, M. Kuki and Y. Koyama
    "The 21Ag- State and Two Additional Low-Lying Electronic States of Spheroidene Newly Identified by Fluorescence and Fluorescence-Excitation Spectroscopy at 170 K"
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 206 (1993) 62-68.
  14. Y.Koyama, Y. Mukai and M. Kuki
    Excited-State Properties and Physiological Functions of Biological Polyenes; Triplet-Excited Region of a Carotenoid and a Retinoid"
    SPIE (Laser Applications in Life Sciences) 1921 (1992) 191-202.
  15. M. Kuki, Y. Koyama and H. Nagae
    "Triplet-Sensitized and Thermal Isomerization of All-Trans, 7-Cis, 9-Cis, 13-Cis, and 15-Cis Isomers of     b-Carotene: Configurational Dependence of the Quantum Yield of Isomerization via the T1 State"
    J. Phys. Chem. 95 (1991) 7171-7180.
  16. M. Naruse, H. Hashimoto, M. Kuki and Y. Koyama
    "Triplet Excitation of Precursors of Spirilloxanthin Bound to the Chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum as Detected by Transient Raman Spectroscopy
    Mol. Struct. 242 (1990) 15-26.
  17. M. Kuki, H. Hashimoto and Y. Koyama
    "The 21Ag- State of a Carotenoid Bound to the Chromatophore Membrane of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 as Revealed by Transient Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 165 (1990) 417-422.

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