Discovery notes
Xenorhodopsins, an enigmatic new class of microbial rhodopsins horizontally transferred between archaea and bacteria
1 Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0202, USA
2 Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Biology Direct 2011, 6:52 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-52
Published: 10 October 2011Additional files
Additional File 1:
Supplementary Methods and Tables.
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Additional File 2:
Trimmed amino acid alignment file of microbial rhodopsin sequences.
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SWISS-MODEL 3-dimensional protein structure model of Nanosalina sp. xenorhodopsin using ASR as a template.
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