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Fluoro derivatives of retinal illuminate the decisive role of the C 12-H element in photoisomerization and rhodopsin activation
Bovee-Geurts, Petra H. M.,Fernandez, Isabelle Fernandez,Liu, Robert S. H.,Mathies, Richard A.,Lugtenburg, Johan,DeGrip, Willem J.
, p. 17933 - 17942 (2009)
Rhodopsin, the visual pigment of the vertebrate rod cell, is among the best investigated members of the G-protein-coupled receptor family. Within this family a unique characteristic of visual pigments is their covalently bound chromophore, 11-cis retinal,
