Structural approaches to understanding retinal proteins needed for vision

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-43

  Orban, Tivadar ^a   Jastrzebska, Beata ^a   Palczewski, Krzysztof ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RETINOID; RHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN KINASE; TRANSDUCIN; CIS TRANS ISOMERASE; EYE PROTEIN; RETINAL; RETINOID ISOMEROHYDROLASE;

BLINDNESS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; VISION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETINA; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; ARRESTINS; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; EYE PROTEINS; G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE 1; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RETINA; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINALDEHYDE; RETINOIDS; RHODOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84888397555     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.11.001     Document Type: Review

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