Chlamydomonas Sensory Rhodopsins A and B: Cellular Content and Role in Photophobic Responses

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2342-2349

  Govorunova, Elena G ^a,b   Jung, Kwang Hwan ^a   Sineshchekov, Oleg A ^a,b   Spudich, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN A; RHODOPSIN B; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNODETECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTAXIS; RECEPTOR GENE;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1942519407     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74291-5     Document Type: Article

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