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Mechanism of magnetic field effect in cryptochrome
Ilia A. Solov'yov, Klaus Schulten
Creatures as varied as mammals, fish, insects, reptiles, and migratory birds have an intriguing `sixth' sense that allows them to distinguish north from south by using the Earth's…
Fluctuation-Driven Molecular Transport in an Asymmetric Membrane Channel
Ioan Kosztin, Klaus Schulten
Channel proteins, that selectively conduct molecules across cell membranes, often exhibit an asymmetric structure. By means of a stochastic model, we argue that channel asymmetry i…
Representative Pathways of Excitation Migration in Photosystem I
Sanghyun Park, Melih K. Sener, Deyu Lu +1
Photosystem I is a protein-pigment complex that performs photosynthesis in plants, green algae, and cyanobacteria. It contains an aggregate of chlorophylls that absorbs light and d…
Robustness and Optimality of Light Harvesting in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I
Melih K. Sener, Deyu Lu, Thorsten Ritz +3
As most biological species, photosynthetic lifeforms have evolved to function optimally, despite thermal disorder and with fault tolerance. It remains a challenge to understand how…
Excitons in a Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting System: A Combined Molecular Dynamics/Quantum Chemistry and Polaron Model Study
Ana Damjanovic, Ioan Kosztin, Klaus Schulten
The dynamics of pigment-pigment and pigment-protein interactions in light-harvesting complexes is studied with a novel approach which combines molecular dynamics (MD) simulations w…
Unbinding of Retinoic Acid from its Receptor Studied by Steered Molecular Dynamics
Dorina Kosztin, Sergei Izrailev, Klaus Schulten
Retinoic acid receptor (RAR) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes involved in cell growth, differentiation, and development. Binding of…