Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin in the multiphoton regime and biological relevance.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 32144255.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-14971-0 and PMC identifier 7060340.
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Abstract
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?
Medical subject headings
- Bacteriorhodopsins