Spectral tuning of deep red cone pigments

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4614-4620

  Amora, Tabitha L ^a   Ramos, Lavoisier S ^a   Galan, Jhenny F ^a   Birge, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRAL TUNING; VERTEBRATE PIGMENTS; WAVELENGTH REGULATION;

ABSORPTION; CHROMOPHORES; CONFORMATIONS; GEOMETRY; PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PIGMENTS;

11 CIS 3,4 DEHYDRORETINAL; 11 CIS RETINAL; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFORMATION; GEOMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COLOR; CONES (RETINA); ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RHODOPSIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42349106605     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi702069d     Document Type: Article

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