Spectroscopic Mimicry for the Protonated Retinal Schiff Base in vivo with Modified Amphiphilic Clay Interlayers as a Possible Model of Opsin Environment

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 716-718

  Sasaki, Masako ^a   Fukuhara, Taro ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOA;

OPSIN; PROTON; RETINAL; SCHIFF BASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OPSIN; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PROTONS; RETINALDEHYDE; SCHIFF BASES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0031263028     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03212.x     Document Type: Article

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