Hua Deng

TL;DR: The author revealed that the Raman Difference Spectrometer was used in studies for the first time in the 1970s, and had shown promise in predicting the size and sources of error in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

TL;DR: There are two anomalous results, the inconsistency of the observed hydrogen exchange rates of retinal Schiff base in the two pigments with those predicted from the standard exchange schemes and the enhancement of the rate of hydrogen exchange in the the two proteins over the model Schiffbase in aqueous solution.

TL;DR: The bacterial enzyme shows the same substrate activation because of the C(+)-O- charge separation that was seen previously with the mammalian enzymes.

TL;DR: The Raman spectra of reduced and oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH and NAD+, respectively) and adenosine 5'-diphosphate ribose (ADPR) when bound to the coenzyme site of liver alcohol dehydrogenase (LADH) are reported and the validity of the suggestion that theAdenine ring is protonated upon binding is discussed.

TL;DR: A force field is developed that accurately fits the observed ethylenic and protonated Schiff base stretching frequencies of rhodopsin and labeled derivatives and suggests that models for the efficient conversion of light to chemical energy in the r Rhodopsin to bathorhodopin photoconversion based solely on salt bridge separation of the protonate Schiff base and its counterion are probably incorrect.