When light falls in LOV: A quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical study of photoexcitation in phot-LOV1 of chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 13006-13013

  Dittrich, Markus ^a,b   Freddolino, Peter L ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE (FMN); INTERSYSTEM CROSSING (ISC); PHOTOACTIVE ELEMENTS; PHOTOEXCITATION;

ATOMS; CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FREE RADICALS; HYDROGEN; LIGHT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

CYSTEINE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; QUANTUM THEORY;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CYSTEINE; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; PHOTORECEPTORS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 22344454499     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp050943o     Document Type: Article

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