%0 Journal Article
%T Investigations on the electrical current-voltage response in protein light receptors
%A E Alfinito
%A J Pousset
%A L Reggiani
%J Physics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X We report a theoretical/computational approach for modeling the current-voltage characteristics of sensing proteins. The modeling is applied to a couple of transmembrane proteins, bacteriorhodopsin and proteorhodopsin, sensitive to visible light and promising biomaterials for the development of a new generation of photo-transducers. The agreement between theory and experiments sheds new light on the microscopic interpretation of charge transfer in proteins and biological materials in general.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0415v1