Color regulation in the archaebacterial phototaxis receptor phoborhodopsin (sensory rhodopsin II)

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

1989 • 663 citations

THE INTERPRETATION OF SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY CURVES

1953 • 597 citations

Direct Observation of the Femtosecond Excited-State cis - trans Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin

1988 • 546 citations

Vibrational spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin mutants: light-driven proton transport involves protonation changes of aspartic acid residues 85, 96, and 212

1988 • 497 citations

Rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin: structure—function relationships

1982 • 430 citations

A rhodopsin is the functional photoreceptor for phototaxis in the unicellular eukaryote Chlamydomonas

1984 • 372 citations

Molecular biology of the visual pigments

1986 • 335 citations

Mechanism of colour discrimination by a bacterial sensory rhodopsin

1984 • 329 citations

An external point-charge model for bacteriorhodopsin to account for its purple color

1980 • 327 citations

An external point-charge model for wavelength regulation in visual pigments

1979 • 323 citations

Resonance Raman spectroscopy of rhodopsin in retinal disk membranes

1974 • 274 citations

Visual-pigment spectra: implications of the protonation of the retinal Schiff base

1976 • 236 citations

Solid-state carbon-13 NMR detection of a perturbed 6-s-trans chromophore in bacteriorhodopsin

1985 • 233 citations

Calculation of .pi..pi.* excited state conformations and vibronic structure of retinal and related molecules

1974 • 206 citations

A photosystem other than PS370 also mediates the negative phototaxis ofHalobacterium halobium

1985 • 200 citations

New wavelength dependent visual pigment nomograms

1977 • 197 citations

Two photosystems controlling behavioural responses of Halobacterium halobium

1975 • 193 citations

Anion-induced wavelength regulation of absorption maxima of Schiff bases of retinal

1972 • 187 citations

Molecular Biology of Visual Pigments

1987 • 168 citations

THE EFFECT OF BLUE LIGHT ON PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS

1982 • 161 citations

Two-photon spectroscopy of protein-bound chromophores

1986 • 157 citations

Visual pigments and environmental light

1984 • 151 citations

Resonance Raman excitation profiles of bacteriorhodopsin

1983 • 146 citations

ON THE MECHANISM OF WAVELENGTH REGULATION IN VISUAL PIGMENTS

1985 • 138 citations

Control of transmembrane ion fluxes to select halorhodopsin-deficient and other energy-transduction mutants of Halobacterium halobium.

1982 • 138 citations

Studies on the Retinal-Protein Interaction in Bacteriorhodopsin

1977 • 137 citations

Chromophore/protein interaction in bacterial sensory rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin

1986 • 130 citations

LOW RESOLUTION OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF RETINYL POLYENES: LOW LYING ELECTRONIC LEVELS AND SPECTRAL BROADNESS*

1973 • 128 citations

Two-photon spectroscopy of locked-11-cis-rhodopsin: evidence for a protonated Schiff base in a neutral protein binding site.

1985 • 125 citations

Hydroretinals and hydrorhodopsins

1979 • 123 citations

Opsin shifts in bovine rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Comparison of two external point-charge models

1980 • 115 citations

Signal formation in the halobacterial photophobic response mediated by a fourth retinal protein (P480)

1987 • 110 citations

Existence of a β-ionone ring-binding site in the rhodopsin molecule

1975 • 107 citations

Ring Orientation in βIonone and Retinals

1971 • 107 citations

Excited-state structure and isomerization dynamics of the retinal chromophore in rhodopsin from resonance Raman intensities

1988 • 105 citations

Direct observation of the excited-state c i s–t r a n s photoisomerization of bacteriorhodopsin: Multilevel line shape theory for femtosecond dynamic hole burning and its application

1989 • 101 citations

Retinal analogs with locked 6-7 conformations show that bacteriorhodopsin requires the 6-s-trans conformation of the chromophore

1986 • 101 citations

Flash spectrophotometric identification of a fourth rhodopsin-like pigment in Halobacterium halobium

1986 • 100 citations

Low-temperature solid-state carbon-13 NMR studies of the retinal chromophore in rhodopsin

1987 • 98 citations

Primary structure of sensory rhodopsin I, a prokaryotic photoreceptor.

1989 • 92 citations

Mechanism for the opsin shift of retinal's absorption in bacteriorhodopsin

1986 • 89 citations

Photoactive Retinal Pigments in Haloalkaliphilic Bacteria

1986 • 84 citations

Evidence that the long-lifetime photointermediate of s-rhodopsin is a receptor for negative phototaxis in halobacterium halobium

1985 • 77 citations

Tunable laser resonance Raman spectroscopy of the visual process. I: The spectrum of rhodopsin

1973 • 76 citations

Properties of a second sensory receptor protein in Halobacterium halobium phototaxis

1986 • 75 citations

Sensory rhodopsins I and II modulate a methylation/demethylation system in Halobacterium halobium phototaxis.

1989 • 74 citations

Regeneration of bovine and octopus opsins in situ with natural and artificial retinals

1989 • 71 citations

Spectroscopic discrimination of the three rhodopsinlike pigments in Halobacterium halobium membranes

1983 • 66 citations

Visual Pigment Homologies Revealed by DNA Hybridization

1986 • 63 citations

An Australian halobacterium contains a novel proton pump retinal protein: Archaerhodopsin

1988 • 61 citations

Electronic structure of polyenes related to the visual chromophore. A simple model for the observed band shapes

1977 • 61 citations

Origins of inhomogeneous broadening in the vibronic spectra of visual chromophores and visual pigments

1982 • 57 citations

The spectra of carbonium ions, cyanine dyes, and protonated Schiff base polyenes

1980 • 55 citations

The crystal structure of 13-cis-retinal. The molecular structures of its 6-s-cis and 6-s-trans conformers

1981 • 51 citations

Similar amino acid sequences revisited

1989 • 49 citations

Chromophore/protein and chromophore/anion interactions in halorhodopsin

1988 • 48 citations

Regeneration of Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin

1981 • 48 citations

Blue Light Photoreceptors

1980 • 46 citations

Structure of the retinal chromophore in sensory rhodopsin I from resonance Raman spectroscopy

1989 • 45 citations

Absolute resonance Raman intensities demonstrate that the spectral broadening induced by the β-ionone ring in retinal is homogeneous

1986 • 40 citations

Why are blue visual pigments blue? A resonance Raman microprobe study.

1989 • 39 citations

Visual pigments of bioluminescent and nonbioluminescent deep-sea fishes

1979 • 36 citations

Bacteriorhodopsins with chromophores modified at the β‐ionone site

1984 • 33 citations

Resonance Raman spectroscopy of an ultraviolet sensitive insect rhodopsin

1987 • 33 citations

The effects of carbon dioxide on the excised goldfish retina

1972 • 31 citations

Interaction of a conformationally rigid analogue of retinal with bacterio-opsin

1982 • 29 citations

Photoreaction of trans‐bacteriorhodopsin at liquid helium temperature

1979 • 28 citations

Halorhodopsin and sensory rhodopsin contain a C6-C7 s-trans retinal chromophore

1989 • 27 citations

Primary step in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle: photochemistry or excitation transfer?

1981 • 22 citations

Properties of an Analogue Pigment of Bacteriorhodopsin Synthesized with Naphthylretinal

1984 • 19 citations

Bacteriorhodopsin: The influence of the cyclohexene‐ring methyls

1987 • 18 citations

ISOMERS OF 3,7,11‐TRIMETHYLDODECA‐2,4,6,8,10‐ PENTAENAL (A LINEAR ANALOGUE OF RETINAL) and LOWER HOMOLOGUES IN THEIR INTERACTION WITH BOVINE OPSIN and BACTERIOOPSIN

1985 • 17 citations

[26] Measurement of light-regulated phosphoproteins of Halobacterium halobium

1982 • 16 citations

[28] Insect visual pigments

1982 • 10 citations