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Shedding new light on the generation of the visual chromophore

The visual phototransduction cascade begins with a cis–trans photoisomerization of a retinylidene chromophore associated with the visual pigments of rod and cone photoreceptors. Visual opsins release their all-trans-retinal chromophore following photoactivation, which necessitates the existence of p...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Palczewski, Krzysztof, Kiser, Philip D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443880/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32759209
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008211117
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