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A Novel Color Switch of Microbial Rhodopsin.
Biochemistry - 4 Jul 2023
Sugiura Masahiro, Singh Manish, Tsunoda Satoshi P, Kandori Hideki
Abstract excerpt
Function of animal and microbial rhodopsins starts by light absorption of the retinal chromophore. The absorption maximum wavelength (λmax) of rhodopsins is determined by the energy gap between the electronically ground (S0) and first excited (S1) state of the retinal chromophore, and the color tuning mechanism is one of the central topics in rhodopsin research. "Color switches", color-determining residues, are...
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