Color tuning mechanism of human red and green visual pigments

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 686-693

  Kakitani, Toshiaki ^a   Beppu, Yoshita ^b   Yamada, Atsushi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BINDING SITES; COLOR; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RHODOPSIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0033212123     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb08271.x     Document Type: Article

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