Creation of photocyclic vertebrate rhodopsin by single amino acid substitution
T. Yamashita, K. Sakai, Y. Imamoto, Y. Shichida
This study shows that a single amino acid substitution at position 188 converts vertebrate rhodopsin to a photocyclic and photoreversible state, revealing its role in opsin functional diversification.
bioRxiv · Dec 6, 2021Biochemistry