Two isoforms of chicken melanopsins show blue light sensitivity

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 5327-5331

  Torii, Masaki ^a   Kojima, Daisuke ^a   Okano, Toshiyuki ^a   Nakamura, Atsushi ^a   Terakita, Akihisa ^b   Shichida, Yoshinori ^b   Wada, Akimori ^c   Fukada, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Melanopsin; OPN4; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; MELANOPSIN; OPSIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; OPSIN; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; PINEAL GLAND; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35648969577     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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