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The rhodopsin story continued

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Determination of the architecture of an invertebrate photoreceptor protein, squid rhodopsin, is a notable event. It illuminates the mechanism of invertebrate vision and a ubiquitous intracellular signalling system.

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Figure 1: The architecture of squid rhodopsin, as determined by Murakami and Kouyama2.

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  1. Gebhard F. X. Schertler is in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. gfx@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk,

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Gebhard F. X. Schertler is a shareholder of, and scientific adviser to, Heptares Therapeutics, 1-3 Burtonhole Lane, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AD, UK (http://home2.btconnect.com/heptares/). This company is involved in research on G-protein-coupled receptors and drug design.

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Schertler, G. The rhodopsin story continued. Nature 453, 292–293 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453292a

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