Engineering aspects of enzymatic signal transduction: Photoreceptors in the retina

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2801-2817

  Detwiler, Peter B ^a   Ramanathan, Sharad ^b   Sengupta, Anirvan ^b   Shraiman, Boris I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033637433     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76519-2     Document Type: Article

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