The molecular mechanism for the spectral shifts between vertebrate- ultraviolet- and violet-sensitive cone visual pigments

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 129-135

  Cowing, Jill A ^a   Poopalasundaram, Subathra ^a   Wilkie, Susan E ^a   Robinson, Phyllis R ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^a   Hunt, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Opsin; Spectral tuning

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIODIVERSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PIGMENTS;

SCHIFF-BASE PROTONATION; VERTEBRATE CONE PHOTORECEPTORS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

OPSIN; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE; VISUAL PIGMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLDFISH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPTILE; RETINA CONE; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TELEOST; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENE VECTOR; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VECTORS; GOLDFISH; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OPSIN; PHENYLALANINE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWINE; TYROSINE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036796409     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20020483     Document Type: Article

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