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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2008 Dec 25;112(51):16883–16890. doi: 10.1021/jp807172h

Table 6.

The calculated excitation energy (nm) of the absorbing state for the WT bovine Rh and its E122Q and E113Q mutants at protein geometries in the absence (QM-none) and presence (QM/MM) of protein environments (QM region: R1; basis set: 6-31G*)a

Structure [Experiment]
WT Rh [500 (0)]

E122Q [480 (-20)]

E113Q[384 (-116)]

Retinal Protonation
PSBR

PSBR

SBR

QM Method QM-none QM/MM QM-none QM/MM QM-none QM/MM
TD-B3LYP 560 (0) 503 (0) 566 (6) 492 (-11) 398 (-162) 409 (-94)
DDCI2+Q(12/12) 527 (0) 435 (0) 522 (-5) 427 (-8) 310 (-217) 320 (-115)
SORCI+Q(6/6) 616 (0) 495 (0) 586 (-30) 462 (-33) 327 (-289) 330 (-165)
MRCISD+Q(6/6) 626 (0) 499 (0) 584 (-42) 490 (-9) 323 (-303) 322 (-177)
a

Numbers (nm) in parentheses are spectral shifts relative to the WT bovine Rh. The calculated QM and QM/MM shifts are relative to the QM-none and QM/MM results of WT Rh.