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Title QM/MM studies of light-responsive biological systems / Tadeusz Andruniów, Massimo Olivucci, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics ; v. 31
Challenges and advances in computational chemistry and physics ; v. 31.
Contents On the automatic construction of QM/MM models for biological photoreceptors: rhodopsins as model systems -- Photo-active biological molecular materials: from photoinduced dynamics to transient electronic spectroscopies -- Polarizable embedding as a tool to address light-responsive biological systems -- Computational studies of photochemistry in phytochrome proteins -- Computational studies of photochemistry in phytochrome proteins -- QM/MM study of bioluminescent systems -- QM/MM approaches shed light on GFP puzzles -- DNA photodamage and repair: computational photobiology in action
Summary "This book, a consecutive contribution to the series Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, focuses on understanding the photoinduced processes in biological systems. Understanding and fine control of light fate in molecules is vital for the progress of society and environmental safety. Light induced changes of various physico-chemical and spectroscopic properties in nucleic acids and proteins is the basis of fundamental biological events such as vision, DNA photodamage or photosensing. The investigation of these processes is challenging to both theoretical and experimental studies. This volume encompasses the quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics theory in several subfields, including: advanced computational methods for nucleic acids and proteins systems; dynamics, spectroscopic and physico-chemical properties of biological photoreceptors; DNA photodamage. This book is of interest to readers in both fundamental and application-oriented research by overviewing recent achievements in computational modeling of excited states in nucleic acids and proteins."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Photobiology.
Quantum theory -- Mathematics
Photobiology
Photobiology
Quantum theory -- Mathematics
Form Electronic book
Author Andruniów, Tadeusz), editor
Olivucci, M. (Massimo), editor.
ISBN 9783030577216
303057721X