Comment on Activation of Visual Pigments by Light and Heat (Science 332, 1307-312, 2011)
Other Quantitative Biology
2015-05-18 v2
Abstract
It is known that the Arrhenius equation, based on the Boltzmann distribution, can model only a part (e.g. half of the activation energy) for retinal discrete dark noise observed for vertebrate rod and cone pigments. Luo et al (Science, 332, 1307-312, 2011) presented a new approach to explain this discrepancy by showing that applying the Hinshelwood distribution instead the Boltzmann distribution in the Arrhenius equation solves the problem successfully. However, a careful reanalysis of the methodology and results shows that the approach of Luo et al is questionable and the results found do not solve the problem completely.
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@article{arxiv.1501.06947,
title = {Comment on Activation of Visual Pigments by Light and Heat (Science 332, 1307-312, 2011)},
author = {Vahid Salari and Felix Scholkmann and Farhad Shahbazi and Istvan Bokkon and Jack Tuszynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06947},
year = {2015}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures