Comparison of the isomerization mechanisms of human melanopsin and invertebrate and vertebrate rhodopsins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1714-1719

  Rinaldi, Silvia ^a,b   Melaccio, Federico ^a   Gozem, Samer ^b   Fanelli, Francesca ^c   Olivucci, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational photobiology; Conical intersection; QM MM method; Thermal noise in photoreceptors; Ultrafast isomerization

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOBIOLOGY; COMPUTER MODEL; INVERTEBRATE; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RETINA; ULTRAFAST ISOMERIZATION; VERTEBRATE;

COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOBIOLOGY; CONICAL INTERSECTION; QM/MM METHOD; THERMAL NOISE IN PHOTORECEPTORS; ULTRAFAST ISOMERIZATION;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DECAPODIFORMES; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; ISOMERISM; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PURINES; RHODOPSIN; ROD OPSINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84893451784     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309508111     Document Type: Article

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