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Contribution of glutamic acid in the conserved E/DRY triad to the functional properties of rhodopsin.
Biochemistry - 15 Jul 2014
Sato Keita, Yamashita Takahiro, Shichida Yoshinori
Abstract excerpt
Rhodopsin is a G protein-coupled receptor specialized for photoreception and contains a light-absorbing chromophore retinal that binds to the lysine residue of opsin through a protonated Schiff base linkage. Light converts rhodopsin to an equilibrium mixture of the active state metarhodopsin II (...
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