Rhodopsin: Insights from recent structural studies

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 31, Issue , 2002, Pages 443-484

  Sakmar, Thomas P ^a   Menon, Santosh T ^a   Marin, Ethan P ^a   Awad, Elias S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromophore; G protein coupled receptor; Retinal; Signal transduction; Vision

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ALPHA HELIX; BINDING SITE; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036088493     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.31.082901.134348     Document Type: Review

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