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The recent publication of the sequence of bacteriorhodopsin [1] combined with three-dimensional information from electron microscopic studies by Henderson and Unwin [2] has provided impetus for the building of model structures. The sequence clearly contains 7 regions of hydrophobic amino acids which could fold to form α helices, corresponding to the 7 helices seen in the electron density map [3] (Fig. 1).
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Wallace, B.A., Henderson, R. (1980). Diffraction Studies of Modified Purple Membrane. In: Baumeister, W., Vogell, W. (eds) Electron Microscopy at Molecular Dimensions. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67688-8_7
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