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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Mar 10;133(13):4734–4737. doi: 10.1021/ja200322w

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Photoisomerization of the protonated Schiff base of 11-cis-retinal chromophore (PSB11) to 11-trans-retinal chromophore (PSBT). Also shown in the background are the PSB11 (black) and PSBT (red) chromophores embedded into the seven-transmembrane (TM7) α-helices of squid rhodopsin (yellow) and bathorhodopsin (green)