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. 1980 Jul;31(1):53–64. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(80)85040-5

A Spectroscopic Study of Rhodopsin Alpha-Helix Orientation

K J Rothschild, R Sanches, T L Hsiao, N A Clark
PMCID: PMC1328764  PMID: 7272433

Abstract

Polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and far ultraviolet circular dichroism of oriented multilamellar films of photoreceptor membranes indicate rhodopsin alpha-helices are predominantly oriented perpendicular to the bilayer plane.

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