Identification of the chloride-binding site in the human red and green color vision pigments

Molecular Genetics of Human Color Vision: The Genes Encoding Blue, Green, and Red Pigments

1986 • 1,702 citations

Glutamic acid-113 serves as the retinylidene Schiff base counterion in bovine rhodopsin.

1989 • 663 citations

Optimization, Constraint, and History in the Evolution of Eyes

1990 • 627 citations

“Tho’ she kneel’d in that place where they grew…” The uses and origins of primate colour vision

1989 • 570 citations

The Drosophila ninaE gene encodes an opsin

1985 • 545 citations

Constitutively active mutants of rhodopsin

1992 • 513 citations

Isolation and structure of a rhodopsin gene from D. melanogaster

1985 • 481 citations

Human visual pigments: microspectrophotometric results from the eyes of seven persons

1983 • 472 citations

Effect of Carboxylic Acid Side Chains on the Absorption Maximum of Visual Pigments

1989 • 469 citations

Expression of a synthetic bovine rhodopsin gene in monkey kidney cells.

1987 • 444 citations

Absorption spectra of human cone pigments

1992 • 360 citations

Primary structures of chicken cone visual pigments: vertebrate rhodopsins have evolved out of cone visual pigments.

1992 • 336 citations

Assembly of functional rhodopsin requires a disulfide bond between cysteine residues 110 and 187.

1990 • 320 citations

Determinants of visual pigment absorbance: identification of the retinylidene Schiff's base counterion in bovine rhodopsin

1990 • 319 citations

The structure of rhodopsin and the rod outer segment disk membrane

1983 • 248 citations

A second opsin gene expressed in the ultraviolet-sensitive R7 photoreceptor cells of Drosophila melanogaster

1987 • 215 citations

Convergent evolution of the red- and green-like visual pigment genes in fish, Astyanax fasciatus, and human.

1990 • 204 citations

A rhodopsin gene expressed in photoreceptor cell R7 of the Drosophila eye: homologies with other signal-transducing molecules

1987 • 193 citations

Octopus rhodopsin Amino acid sequence deduced from cDNA

1988 • 157 citations

Design, chemical synthesis, and expression of genes for the three human color vision pigments

1991 • 151 citations

Role of the intradiscal domain in rhodopsin assembly and function.

1990 • 139 citations

An opsin gene expressed in only one photoreceptor cell type of the Drosophila eye

1986 • 134 citations

Cone visual pigments are present in gecko rod cells.

1992 • 123 citations

Molecular cloning and primary structure of squid (Loligo forbesi) rhodopsin, a phospholipase C-directed G-protein-linked receptor

1991 • 115 citations

Transducin Activation by Rhodopsin Without a Covalent Bond to the 11- Cis -Retinal Chromophore

1991 • 114 citations

An opsin gene that is expressed only in the R7 photoreceptor cell of Drosophila.

1987 • 107 citations

Isolation and sequence determination of the chicken rhodopsin gene

1988 • 97 citations

Anion sensitivity and spectral tuning of cone visual pigments in situ.

1992 • 94 citations

Molecular evolution of human visual pigment genes.

1989 • 93 citations

Isolation and characterization of lamprey rhodopsin cDNA

1991 • 77 citations

The primary structure of iodopsin, a chicken red‐sensitive cone pigment

1990 • 67 citations

Halide control of color of the chicken cone pigment iodopsin

1979 • 55 citations

The effects of chloride ion upon chicken visual pigments

1976 • 52 citations

A visual pigment from chicken that resembles rhodopsin: amino acid sequence, gene structure, and functional expression

1992 • 51 citations

The Visual Pigments of Geckos and other Vertebrates: An Essay in Comparative Biology

1977 • 45 citations

Changing the location of the Schiff base counterion in rhodopsin

1992 • 44 citations

Effects of chloride on chicken iodopsin and the chromophore transfer reactions from iodopsin to scotopsin and B-photopsin

1990 • 43 citations

Assignment of groups responsible for the "opsin shift" and light absorptions of rhodopsin and red, green, and blue iodopsins (cone pigments).

1988 • 34 citations

Effect of chloride ion on the thermal decay process of the batho intermediate of iodopsin at low temperature

1989 • 33 citations

The gecko visual pigments: The nitrate effect

1980 • 15 citations

The Gecko visual pigment: The anion hypsochromic effect

1991 • 9 citations