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Four resonance structures elucidate double-bond isomerisation of a biological chromophore

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Gromov,  Evgeniy V.
Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Max Planck Society;

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Domratcheva,  Tatiana
Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Max Planck Society;

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Gromov, E. V., & Domratcheva, T. (2020). Four resonance structures elucidate double-bond isomerisation of a biological chromophore. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(16), 8535-8544. doi:10.1039/D0CP00814A.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-C025-8
Abstract
Photoinduced double-bond isomerisation of the chromophore of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) is highly sensitive to chromophore-protein interactions. On the basis of high-level ab initio calculations, using the XMCQDPT2 method, we scrutinise the effect of the chromophore-protein hydrogen bonds on the photophysical and photochemical properties of the chromophore. We identify four resonance structures – two closed-shell and two biradicaloid – that elucidate the electronic structure of the ground and first excited states involved in the isomerisation process. Changing the relative energies of the resonance structures by hydrogen-bonding interactions tunes all photochemical properties of the chromophore in an interdependent manner. Our study sheds new light on the role of the chromophore electronic structure in tuning in photosensors and fluorescent proteins.