Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin in the multiphoton regime and biological relevance

R. J. Dwayne Miller; Olivier Paré-Labrosse; Antoine Sarracini; Jessica E. Besaw

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14971-0

Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin in the multiphoton regime and biological relevance

R. J. Dwayne Miller,
Olivier Paré-Labrosse,
Antoine Sarracini,
Jessica E. Besaw

Affiliations

R. J. Dwayne Miller: Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Olivier Paré-Labrosse: Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Antoine Sarracini: Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto
Jessica E. Besaw: Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14971-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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How does chemistry scale in complexity to unerringly direct biological functions? Nass Kovacs et al. have shown that bacteriorhodopsin undergoes structural changes tantalizingly similar to the expected pathway even under excessive excitation. Is the protein structure so highly evolved that it directs all deposited energy into the designed function?

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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