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

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

1986 • 1,702 citations

Molecular Basis of Visual Excitation

1968 • 1,002 citations

The Drosophila ninaE gene encodes an opsin

1985 • 545 citations

Isolation and structure of a rhodopsin gene from D. melanogaster

1985 • 481 citations

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

1987 • 444 citations

Monoclonal antibodies to rhodopsin: characterization, cross-reactivity, and application as structural probes

1983 • 392 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

A single amino acid substitution in rhodopsin (lysine 248—-leucine) prevents activation of transducin.

1988 • 260 citations

The structure of rhodopsin and the rod outer segment disk membrane

1983 • 248 citations

The opsin family of proteins

1986 • 245 citations

THE MECHANISM OF BLEACHING RHODOPSIN

1958 • 241 citations

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

1976 • 236 citations

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

1987 • 215 citations

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

1987 • 193 citations

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

1972 • 187 citations

Total synthesis of a gene for bovine rhodopsin.

1986 • 179 citations

Specific amino acid substitutions in bacterioopsin: Replacement of a restriction fragment in the structural gene by synthetic DNA fragments containing altered codons

1984 • 158 citations

Octopus rhodopsin Amino acid sequence deduced from cDNA

1988 • 157 citations

ON THE MECHANISM OF WAVELENGTH REGULATION IN VISUAL PIGMENTS

1985 • 138 citations

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

1986 • 134 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

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

1987 • 107 citations

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

1989 • 39 citations

Resonance Raman spectroscopy of octopus rhodopsin and its photoproducts

1987 • 34 citations