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Structural waters define a functional channel mediating activation of the GPCR, rhodopsin

Thomas E Angel1, Sayan Gupta, Beata Jastrzebska

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4965, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|August 27, 2009
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