Molecular evolution of proteins involved in vertebrate phototransduction

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 509-522

  Hisatomi, Osamu ^a   Tokunaga, Fumio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Molecular evolution; Opsin; Photoreceptor; Phototransduction; Visual system

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; ISOPROTEIN; OPSIN; PHOSDUCIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN GCAP; PROTEIN NCKX; PROTEIN RGS9; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RGS PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN KINASE; S MODULIN; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT; EYE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXCITATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RETINA CONE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE; VISION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ROD; REVIEW;

VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 0036899384     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(02)00127-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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