Electrostatic potential at the retinal of three archaeal rhodopsins: Implications for their different absorption spectra

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 953-965

  Kloppmann, Edda ^a   Becker, Torsten ^a   Ullmann, G Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteriorhodopsin; Continuum electrostatics; Electrostatic potential; Halorhodopsin; Opsin shift; Poisson Boltzmann equation; Sensory rhodopsin II; Spectral tuning

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; HALORHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; SENSORY RHODOPSIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RETINA; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN; SCHIFF BASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 28644443746     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20744     Document Type: Article

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