G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin: A Prospectus

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2003, Pages 851-879

  Filipek, Sławomir ^a   Stenkamp, Ronald E ^b   Teller, David C ^b,c   Palczewski, Krzysztof ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Phototransduction; Signal transduction; Transmembrane protein; Vision; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; DIMER; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; SCHIFF BASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; BLEACHING; CHROMATOPHORE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGENERATION; REVIEW; VISION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0038549048     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.65.092101.142611     Document Type: Review

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