Helix movement is coupled to displacement of the second extracellular loop in rhodopsin activation

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-175

  Ahuja, Shivani ^a   Hornak, Viktor ^a   Yan, Elsa C Y ^b,e   Syrett, Natalie ^c   Goncalves, Joseph A ^a   Hirshfeld, Amiram ^d   Ziliox, Martine ^a   Sakmar, Thomas P ^b   Sheves, Mordechai ^d   Reeves, Philip J ^c   Smith, Steven O ^a   Eilers, Markus ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLID STATE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 59649112109     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1549     Document Type: Article

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