Email this article Rhodopsin: Evolution and comparative physiology
- Authors: Ostrovsky M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics
- Issue: Vol 51, No 5 (2017)
- Pages: 562-572
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0031-0301/article/view/167190
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030117050069
- ID: 167190
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Abstract
A review of physicochemical properties, photochemistry, functions, and evolution of retinal-containing proteins (microbial and of metazoan rhodopsins, mostly visual rhodopsins) is provided. Comparative physiology of visual rhodopsins is considered in detail, mainly the molecular mechanisms of their spectral tuning.
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M. A. Ostrovsky
Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics
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Email: ostrovsky3535@mail.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Kosygina 4, Moscow, 117977
