Investigations on the electrical current-voltage response in protein light receptors
Biological Physics
2014-02-04 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We report a theoretical/computational approach for modeling the current-voltage characteristics of sensing proteins. The modeling is applied to a couple of transmembrane proteins, bacteriorhodopsin and proteorhodopsin, sensitive to visible light and promising biomaterials for the development of a new generation of photo-transducers. The agreement between theory and experiments sheds new light on the microscopic interpretation of charge transfer in proteins and biological materials in general.
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@article{arxiv.1402.0415,
title = {Investigations on the electrical current-voltage response in protein light receptors},
author = {E Alfinito and J Pousset and L Reggiani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0415},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures To be published in J Phys. C: Conf Ser. Proceeding of the Conference IC-MCSQUARE, PRAGUE 2013