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Signal transduction in photoreceptors
1Department of Zoology, Oxford University, U.K.
Biochemical Society Transactions
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
The biochemical role of the visual-pigment protein, rhodopsin, is reviewed, with reference to vertebrate rods and cones and the microvillar photoreceptors of invertebrates. New results are presented on the structure of squid rhodopsin, which possesses an extensive proline-rich repeat at its C-terminus, using negative-stain electron microscopy.