Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: Genes encoding retinal photoisomerase and two putative visual cycle proteins are expressed in whole brain of a primitive chordate

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 460, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 180-190

  Nakashima, Yuki ^a   Kusakabe, Takehiro ^a   Kusakabe, Rie ^a   Terakita, Akihisa ^b   Shichida, Yosinori ^b   Tsuda, Motoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

carotene 15,15 monooxygenase; Ascidians; Cellular retinaldehyde binding protein; Opsin; RGR; RPE65

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; BETA CAROTENE 15,15' MONOOXYGENASE; CELLULAR RETINALDEHYDE BINDING PROTEIN; CI OPSIN1; CI OPSIN3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOTOISOMERASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RETINAL; RETINOID; RHODOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHORDATA; CHROMATOPHORE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LARVA; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RETINA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0037467557     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10645     Document Type: Article

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