The 9-methyl group of retinal is essential for rapid Meta II decay and phototransduction quenching in red cones

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-150

  Estevez, Maureen E ^a   Kolesnikov, Alexander V ^b,f   Ala Laurila, Petri ^d,e   Crouch, Rosalie K ^c   Govardovskii, Victor I ^b   Cornwall, M Carter ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL GROUP; OPSIN; RETINAL; RETINOL; RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLUOROMETRY; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINA; RETINA CONE; SALAMANDER;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KINETICS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPSINS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN; URODELA;

EID: 67749099498     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200910232     Document Type: Article

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