A green cone-like pigment in the 'blind' mole-rat Spalax ehrenbergi: Functional expression and photochemical characterization

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1287-1291

  Janssen, Jannie W H ^a   David Gray, Zoë K ^b   Bovee Geurts, Petra H M ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^c   Foster, Russell G ^b   DeGrip, Willem J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; EYE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; COLOR; KINETICS; MAMMAL; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; RODENT; SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BLINDNESS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINA CONE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

MAMMALIA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE; SPALAX;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CONES (RETINA); EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLE RATS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 3042789553     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b300059c     Document Type: Article

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