This study makes the fundamental discovery of the first natural animal rhodopsin that uses a chloride ion instead of an amino acid side chain as a counterion. Using a combination of biochemical and ...

In this paper, Sakai et al. investigated molecular properties of anthozoan-specific opsin II (ASO-II opsins), as they lack these glutamates. They found an alternative candidate, Glu292 in helix 7, ...

1 School of Computer and Information Engineering, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics; School of Biological Science & Medical ...