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Molecular properties of chimerical mutants of gecko blue and bovine rhodopsin.
Biochemistry - 27 Feb 1996
Kojima D, Oura T, Hisatomi O, Tokunaga F, Fukada Y, Yoshizawa T, Shichida Y
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In spite of the high similarity in amino acid sequence between rod visual pigment rhodopsin and gecko blue-sensitive pigment (gecko blue), not only the spectral sensitivities but also the thermal decay rates of the meta II- and III-intermediates are noticeably different from one another [Kojima et al. (1995) Biochemistry 34, 1096-1106]. In order to identify the protein region(s) that contain(s) key residue being...
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