Rod opsin sequence in the John Dory: further evidence for the spectral tuning of rhodopsin

The opsin shift and mechanism of spectra

The opsin shift and mechanism of spectral tuning in rhodopsin

✍ Ramkumar Rajamani; Yen-Lin Lin; Jiali Gao 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 616 KB

## Abstract Molecular dynamics simulations and combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical calculations have been performed to investigate the mechanism of the opsin shift and spectral tuning in rhodopsin. A red shift of −980 cm^−1^ was estimated in the transfer of the chromophore from met