The sequence of changes that light triggers in a bacterial photoreceptor starts with its protein scaffolding rather than the light-absorbing chromophore, an all-RIKEN team has shown. This finding goes ...
Scientists for the first time have followed the photoisomerization of 11-cis-rhodopsin to its all-trans photoproduct from start to finish. In the process of studying this central step in vision, they ...
Photoisomerisation describes the light-induced rearrangement of molecular geometry that underpins key phenomena such as vision, photoswitchable materials and molecular machines. Upon photon absorption ...