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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 79, Issue 2, Pages 982-991Publisher
BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76352-1
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The mechanism of proton transport around the Schiff base in bacteriorhodopsin was investigated by ab initio molecular orbital (MO) calculations. Computations were performed for the case where there is a water molecule between the Schiff base and the Asp residue and for the case where there is no water molecule. Changes in the atomic configuration and potential energy through the proton transport process were compared between two cases. In the absence of water, the protonated Schiff base was not stable, and a proton was spontaneously detached from the Schiff base, On the other hand, a stable structure of the protonated Schiff base was obtained in the presence of water. This suggests that the presence of a water molecule is required for stability in the formation of a protonated Schiff base.
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