Beyond spectral tuning: Human cone visual pigments adopt different transient conformations for chromophore regeneration

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1253-1263

  Srinivasan, Sundaramoorthy ^a   Cordomí, Arnau ^b   Ramon, Eva ^a   Garriga, Pere ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Color vision; G protein coupled receptors; Ligand binding; Retinal; Visual phototransduction

Indexed keywords

CONE OPSIN; GREEN CONE OPSIN; RED CONE OPSIN; SCHIFF BASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LONG-WAVELENGTH OPSIN; MIDDLE-WAVELENGTH OPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOTOACTIVATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REGENERATION; RETINA CONE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UV VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; COLOR VISION; COS 1 CELL LINE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COLOR VISION; COS CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 84958743387     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-2043-7     Document Type: Article

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