Computational studies of the primary phototransduction event in visual rhodopsin

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 184-193

  Gascón, José A ^a   Sproviero, Eduardo M ^a,b   Batista, Victor S ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Prof Batista's Research Group at Yale   (United States)

^c Yale Faculty   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33645527222     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar050027t     Document Type: Review

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