A new study on the excited-state dynamics of Archaerhodopsin-3 (AR3) has been published in Biophys. J.🥳Spectroscopy and calculation revealed that protonation of the retinal counterion prolongs the excited-state lifetime and enhances fluorescence✨
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Archaerhodopsin-3 (AR-3) and its mutants have attracted a large attention for applications
in optogenetics since they display a voltage-sensitive, near-infrared fluorescence.
Recent quantum chemistry ...
