Molecular dynamics simulations of retinal in rhodopsin: From the dark-adapted state towards lumirhodopsin

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 38, 2005, Pages 12667-12680

  Lemaître, Vincent ^a,b   Yeagle, Philip ^c   Watts, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; ISOMERIZATION; PROTEINS;

CHROMOPHORE; PARAMETRIZATION; QUANTUM STUDY; RHODOPSIN;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

LUMIRHODOPSIN; LYSINE; RETINAL; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DARK ADAPTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; ISOMERISM; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 25444478851     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0506019     Document Type: Article

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