Complexes between photoactivated rhodopsin and transducin: Progress and questions

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 428, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Jastrzebska, Beata ^a   Tsybovsky, Yaroslav ^a   Palczewski, Krzysztof ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

G protein coupled receptor (GPCR); Heterotrimeric G protein; Photoactivated rhodopsin; Transducin (Gt)

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; G PROTEIN; G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS; GDP/GTP EXCHANGE; HETEROTRIMERIC G-PROTEIN; PHOTO-ACTIVATED; RAPID RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TRANSDUCIN;

NUCLEOTIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

PROTEINS;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RHODOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77953384365     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20100270     Document Type: Review

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