Multiple functions of Schiff base counterion in rhodopsins

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1426-1434

  Tsutsui, Kei ^a,b   Shichida, Yoshinori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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BOVINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78049436281     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0pp00134a     Document Type: Article

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