A novel amino acid substitution is responsible for spectral tuning in a rodent violet-sensitive visual pigment

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 8014-8020

  Parry, Juliet W L ^a   Poopalasundaram, Subathra ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^a   Hunt, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PIGMENTS; PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EVOLUTION; VISUAL PIGMENTS; WAVE SHIFT; WAVELENGTH;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

AMINO ACID; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; OPSIN; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; VISUAL PIGMENT; VISUAL PIGMENT SWS1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COLOR; GUINEA PIG; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLDFISH; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; HYDROXYLAMINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

AVES; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIUROGNATHI; SUS SCROFA; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 3042513751     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049478w     Document Type: Article

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