An ion-responsive motif in the second transmembrane segment of rhodopsin-like receptors

Amino Acids

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Parker, M S ^a   Wong, Y Y ^b   Parker, S L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive transduction; G protein coupling; Ion switch; Ion transfer; Signal transduction; Visual signaling

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; SODIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE; ION TRANSPORT; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM;

METAZOA;

EID: 46549083395     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-008-0637-6     Document Type: Review

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