Highly conserved glutamic acid in the extracellular IV-V loop in rhodopsins acts as the counterion in retinochrome, a member of the rhodopsin family

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 14263-14267

  Terakita, Akihisa ^a,b   Yamashita, Takahiro ^a   Shichida, Yoshinori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; RETINOCHROME; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RHODOPSIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0034687783     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.260349597     Document Type: Article

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