Glutamic acid-113 serves as the retinylidene Schiff base counterion in bovine rhodopsin.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on November 01, 1989

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T P Sakmar1, R R Franke, H G Khorana

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1: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 01239.

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