Molecular mechanism of long-range synergetic color tuning between multiple amino acid residues in conger rhodopsin

Biophysics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 67-78

  Watanabe, Hiroshi C ^a,b   Mori, Yoshiharu ^a   Tada, Takashi ^c   Yokoyama, Shozo ^c   Yamato, Takahisa ^a,d,e  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CASPT2; Color tuning mechanism; G protein coupled receptor; Retinal; Spectral broadening

Indexed keywords

CONGER;

EID: 78650826238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13492942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2142/biophysics.6.67     Document Type: Article

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