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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2008 May 15;47(23):6208–6215. doi: 10.1021/bi8003507

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Schematic drawing of the primary step in the light-signal transduction in SRII (PDB entry 1H2S). Retinal photoisomerization causes the steric constraint between the C14H group and Thr204, by which the C14–D stretching vibration is enhanced. Light energy stored by the steric constraint is used for changing the protein structures, including the protein–protein interaction surface with HtrII.