Spectral Tuning in Visual Pigments: An ONIOM(QM:MM) Study on Bovine Rhodopsin and its Mutants
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1520-6106,1520-5207
DOI: 10.1021/jp709730b