Focus on Molecules: Melanopsin

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 161-162

  Davies, Wayne L ^a   Foster, Russell G ^a   Hankins, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mammalian; Melanopsin; OPN4; Opsin; Retina; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MELANOPSIN;

CHROMATOPHORE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 84859513575     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.07.020     Document Type: Short Survey

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