retinal: Projects

Molecular Mechanisms of Retinal Protein Action:
A Combination of Theoretical Approaches

Projects

TP1: Regulation of the Proton Pumping Activity of bR - Influence of Membrane Potential and Proton Gradient.

TP2: Proton Transfer and Conformational Dynamics in the M₂-to-O Steps of the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle.

TP3: Computer Simulation of the Proton Transfer Pathways at the Extracellular Side of Bacteriorhodopsin and IR Spectra of the Photocycle Intermediates.

TP4: Computer Simulation of Anion Pumping by Retinal Proteins.

TP5: Structures of the First Intermediates of the Visual Cascade.

TP6: Mechanisms of the Opsin Shift.

TP7: QM/MM Calculations of Retinal Protein Excited States: Investigating the Mechanism of Color Tuning.

TP8: Excited State Dynamics in the Early Stages of the bR and Rh Photocycle.