QM/MM study of energy storage and molecular rearrangements due to the primary event in vision

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2931-2941

  Gascon, Jose A ^a   Batista, Victor S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; POLYENE; RETINOL ESTER; RHODOPSIN; SCHIFF BASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATOPHORE; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; VALIDATION STUDY;

BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROSTATICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTORECEPTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 11144247319     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.048264     Document Type: Article

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