Melanopsin Carboxy-terminus phosphorylation plasticity and bulk negative charge, not strict site specificity, achieves phototransduction deactivation

• Juan C. Valdez-Lopez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sahil Gulati,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Gatan Inc, Pleasanton, California, United States of America

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• Elelbin A. Ortiz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Krzysztof Palczewski,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Phyllis R. Robinson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: probinso@umbc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3828-8826

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