The roles of transmembrane domain helix-III during rhodopsin photoactivation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ou, Wen bin ^a,c   Yi, Tingfang ^b   Kim, Jong Myoung ^a,d   Khorana, H Gobind ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN HELIX III; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATALYSIS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; CYSTEINE; LIGHT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 79952129837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017398     Document Type: Article

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