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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 99, Issue 7, Pages 2200-2207Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.06.067
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- National Science Foundation through TeraGrid [CHE-0750175]
- UC MEXUS-CONACyT
- National Institutes of Health [GM74637, GM68002]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0750175] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The light-induced isomerization of the retinal from 11-cis to all-trans triggers changes in the conformation of visual rhodopsins that lead to the formation of the activated state, which is ready to interact with the G protein. To begin to understand how changes in the structure and dynamics of the retinal are transmitted to the protein, we performed molecular dynamics simulations of squid rhodopsin with 11-cis and all-trans retinal, and with two different force fields for describing the retinal molecule. The results indicate that structural rearrangements in the binding pocket, albeit small, propagate toward the cytoplasmic side of the protein, and affect the dynamics of internal water molecules. The sensitivity of the active-site interactions on the retinal force-field parameters highlights the coupling between the retinal molecule and its immediate protein environment.
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