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Biophys J, October 1998, p. 1689-1699, Vol. 75, No. 4

Three Electronic State Model of the Primary Phototransformation of Bacteriorhodopsin

William Humphrey,*# Hui Lu,*§ Ilya Logunov,* Hans-J. Werner,parallel and Klaus Schulten*#

 *Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Departments of  #Physics,  §Nuclear Engineering, and  Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA, and  parallel Institut für Theoretische Chemie, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

The primary all-trans right-arrow 13-cis photoisomerization of retinal in bacteriorhodopsin has been investigated by means of quantum chemical and combined classical/quantum mechanical simulations employing the density matrix evolution method. Ab initio calculations on an analog of a protonated Schiff base of retinal in vacuo reveal two excited states S1 and S2, the potential surfaces of which intersect along the reaction coordinate through an avoided crossing, and then exhibit a second, weakly avoided, crossing or a conical intersection with the ground state surface. The dynamics governed by the three potential surfaces, scaled to match the in situ level spacings and represented through analytical functions, are described by a combined classical/quantum mechanical simulation. For a choice of nonadiabatic coupling constants close to the quantum chemistry calculation results, the simulations reproduce the observed photoisomerization quantum yield and predict the time needed to pass the avoided crossing region between S1 and S2 states at tau 1 = 330 fs and the S1 right-arrow ground state crossing at tau 2 = 460 fs after light absorption. The first crossing follows after a 30° torsion on a flat S1 surface, and the second crossing follows after a rapid torsion by a further 60°. tau 1 matches the observed fluorescence lifetime of S1. Adjusting the three energy levels to the spectral shift of D85N and D212N mutants of bacteriorhodospin changes the crossing region of S1 and S2 and leads to an increase in tau 1 by factors 17 and 10, respectively, in qualitative agreement with the observed increase in fluorescent lifetimes.

Biophys J, October 1998, p. 1689-1699, Vol. 75, No. 4
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