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Automatically associated channels: Kir2.3

Title: The rhodopsin-like pigments of halobacteria: light-energy and signal transducers in an archaebacterium.

Authors: W Stoeckenius

Journal, date & volume: Trends Biochem. Sci., 1985 Dec , 10, 483-6

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11542514

Abstract
Three similar, small retinylidene proteins, which resemble the visual pigments of animals, are found in halobacteria: two functions as light-driven ion pumps; the third is the receptor for phototaxis and allows color discrimination.