Two protonation switches control rhodopsin activation in membranes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17795-17800

  Mahalingam, Mohana ^a   Martínez Mayorga, Karina ^b,c   Brown, Michael F ^c   Vogel, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b TORREY PINES INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

FTIR spectroscopy; G protein coupled receptor; Ionic lock; Membrane protein; UV visible spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

2 OLEOYL 1 PALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTONS; RHODOPSIN; SCHIFF BASES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 56649097496     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804541105     Document Type: Article

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