Functions, therapeutic applications, and synthesis of retinoids and carotenoids

R Alvarez, B Vaz, H Gronemeyer, AR de Lera - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Vitamin A (all-trans-retinol, 1, Figure 1) is considered the most multifunctional vitamin in the
human body. 1 It plays key roles in many physiological processes such as vision …

Photochemistry of the retinal chromophore in microbial rhodopsins

K Inoue - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive membrane proteins of microorganisms that express
diverse photobiological functions. All-trans-retinylidene Schiff base, the so-called all-trans …

Understanding photosynthetic light-harvesting: a bottom up theoretical approach

T Renger, F Müh - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We discuss a bottom up approach for modeling photosynthetic light-harvesting. Methods are
reviewed for a full structure-based parameterization of the Hamiltonian of pigment–protein …

Theory and calculation for the electronic coupling in excitation energy transfer

ZQ You, CP Hsu - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Excitation energy transfer (EET) is a process where the electronically excitation is
transferred from a donor to an acceptor. EET is widely seen in both natural and in artificial …

Quantum chemical description of absorption properties and excited‐state processes in photosynthetic systems

C König, J Neugebauer - ChemPhysChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The theoretical description of the initial steps in photosynthesis has gained increasing
importance over the past few years. This is caused by more and more structural data …

The seamless connection of local and collective excited states in subsystem time-dependent density functional theory

J Tölle, J Neugebauer - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The theoretical understanding of photoinduced processes in multichromophoric systems
requires, as an essential ingredient, the possibility of accurately describing their …

Long-range exciton diffusion in a non-fullerene acceptor: approaching the incoherent limit

PA Hume, W Jiao, JM Hodgkiss - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In organic photovoltaic cells, absorption of light leads to the formation of excitons, which then
diffuse to the donor/acceptor interface to generate photocurrent. The distance from which …

Diversity, mechanism, and optogenetic application of light-driven ion pump rhodopsins

K Inoue - Optogenetics: Light-sensing proteins and their …, 2021 - Springer
Ion-transporting microbial rhodopsins are widely used as major molecular tools in
optogenetics. They are categorized into light-gated ion channels and light-driven ion pumps …

Extending multi-layer energy-based fragment method for excited-state calculations of large covalently bonded fragment systems

WK Chen, WH Fang, G Cui - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, we developed a low-scaling Multi-Layer Energy-Based Fragment (MLEBF)
method for accurate excited-state calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of …

Shedding new light on retinal protein photochemistry

A Wand, I Gdor, J Zhu, M Sheves… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The ultrafast spectroscopic investigation of novel retinal proteins challenges existing notions
concerning the course of primary events in these natural photoreceptors. We review two …