H-bond network around retinal regulates the evolution of ultraviolet and violet vision

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 775-780

  Altun, Ahmet ^a,b   Morokuma, Keiji ^a,c   Yokoyama, Shozo ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINAL; SCHIFF BASE; VISUAL PIGMENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTONS; RETINA; RETINALDEHYDE; SCHIFF BASES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION, OCULAR;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80051972835     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb200100f     Document Type: Article

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