Crystal Structure of a Thermally Stable Rhodopsin Mutant

Jörg Standfuss1, Guifu Xie2, Pat Edwards1, Manfred Burghammer3, Daniel Oprian2 and Gebhard Schertler1

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1MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Stuildies, Hls Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK,
2Department of Biochemistry and Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454,
3European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP 220, F-38043, Grenoble, Cedex, France

  1. Introduction
  2. The Stabilized N2C/D282C Rhodopsin Mutant
  3. Micro-Crystallography
  4. Structure Determination
  5. Comparison with Native Rhodopsin
  6. Origin of Increased Thermal Stability
  7. References


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