Expression and comparative characterization of Gq-coupled invertebrate visual pigments and melanopsin

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 883-890

  Terakita, Akihisa ^a,c   Tsukamoto, Hisao ^a,c   Koyanagi, Mitsumasa ^a,c   Sugahara, Michio ^b   Yamashita, Takahiro ^a   Shichida, Yoshinori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Japanese Honeybee   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bistable pigments; Gq; Melanopsin; Photoreceptors; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MELANOPSIN; PROTEIN GQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INVERTEBRATE; LIPID VESICLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GQ-G11; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INVERTEBRATES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

APIS MELLIFERA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CEPHALOPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 42449108772     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.05184.x     Document Type: Article

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