Colocalization of pinopsin with two types of G-protein α-subunits in the chicken pineal gland

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-251

  Matsushita, A ^a   Yoshikawa, T ^a   Okano, T ^a   Kasahara, T ^a   Fukada, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Circadian clock; Gq 11; Immunoelectron microscopy; Phototransduction; Pinealocyte; Rod transducin

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PINOPSIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPSIN; PINEAL GLAND; TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033970660     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050022     Document Type: Article

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