The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Synthesis of a new photoactivatable analog of 11-cis-retinal

TA Nakayama, HG Khorana

Index: Nakayama; Khorana Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 55, # 16 p. 4953 - 4955

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Abstract

Rhodopsin, an integral membrane protein, functions as a photoreceptor in vertebrate retina. Bovine rhodopsin consists of a single polypeptide chain of 348 amino acids whose sequence is Hydropathy analysis1p2 of the protein sequence and proteolysis and