The early M photocycle intermediate


The paper:

Coupling photoisomerization of retinal to directional transport in bacteriorhodopsin.
H Luecke, B Schobert, JP Cartailler, H-T Richter, A. Rosengarth, R. Needleman, JK Lanyi (2000) J. Mol. Biol. 300, 1237-1255.
 

The atomic models:

1F50.pdb (released Aug 9, 2000): 1.7 Å  light-adapted ground-state structure of the E204Q single-site mutant, described in the 2000 JMB paper.

1F4Z.pdb (released Aug 9, 2000): 1.8 Å early M photocycle-intermediate structure of the E204Q single-site mutant, described in the 2000 JMB paper.