Two rhodopsins mediate phototaxis to low- and high-intensity light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Two rhodopsins mediate phototaxis to low- and high-intensity light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
We demonstrate that two rhodopsins, identified from cDNA sequences, function as low- and high-light-intensity phototaxis receptors in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Each of the receptors consists of an approximately 300-residue seven-transmembrane helix domain with a retinal-binding pocket homologous to that of archaeal rhodopsins, followed by approximately 400 residues of addit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.122243399