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Crystal structure of a thermally stable rhodopsin mutant.
Journal of molecular biology - 5 Oct 2007
Standfuss Jörg, Xie Guifu, Edwards Patricia C, Burghammer Manfred, Oprian Daniel D, Schertler Gebhard F X
Abstract excerpt
We determined the structure of the rhodopsin mutant N2C/D282C expressed in mammalian cells; the first structure of a recombinantly produced G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). The mutant was designed to form a disulfide bond between the N terminus and loop E3, which allows handling of opsin in detergent solution and increases thermal stability of rhodopsin by 10 deg.C. It allowed us to crystallize a fully...
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- Animals
- COS Cells
- Cattle
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Disulfides
- Humans
