Single amino acid residue as a functional determinant of rod and cone visual pigments

Phosphodiesterase activation by photoexcited rhodopsin is quenched when rhodopsin is phosphorylated and binds the intrinsic 48-kDa protein of rod outer segments.

1986 • 781 citations

Isolation, sequence analysis, and intron-exon arrangement of the gene encoding bovine rhodopsin

1983 • 689 citations

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

1989 • 663 citations

The structure of bovine rhodopsin

1983 • 513 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

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

1992 • 336 citations

Phototransduction mechanism in retinal rods and cones. The Friedenwald Lecture.

1994 • 335 citations

Rhodopsin and phototransduction: a model system for G protein‐linked receptors

1992 • 332 citations

How photons start vision.

1996 • 326 citations

IODOPSIN

1955 • 325 citations

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

1990 • 319 citations

Primate photopigments and primate color vision.

1996 • 260 citations

Protonation states of membrane-embedded carboxylic acid groups in rhodopsin and metarhodopsin II: a Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy study of site-directed mutants.

1993 • 235 citations

Determinants of visual pigment absorbance: role of charged amino acids in the putative transmembrane segments

1990 • 228 citations

Mapping of the amino acids in membrane-embedded helices that interact with the retinal chromophore in bovine rhodopsin

1991 • 193 citations

Mechanism of activation and inactivation of opsin: role of Glu113 and Lys296

1992 • 169 citations

Cloning and expression of goldfish opsin sequences

1993 • 159 citations

Chapter 5 First Stage of Amplification in the Cyclic-Nucleotide Cascade of Vision

1981 • 121 citations

Histidine residues regulate the transition of photoexcited rhodopsin to its active conformation, metarhodopsin II

1992 • 111 citations

Purification of cone visual pigments from chicken retina

1989 • 110 citations

Isolation and characterization of lamprey rhodopsin cDNA

1991 • 77 citations

Is Chicken Green-Sensitive Cone Visual Pigment a Rhodopsin-like Pigment? A Comparative Study of the Molecular Properties between Chicken Green and Rhodopsin

1994 • 70 citations

βγ-Subunit of Bovine Transducin Composed of Two Components with Distinctive γ-Subunits

1989 • 66 citations

Phylogenetic relationships among vertebrate visual pigments

1994 • 60 citations

Rhodopsin activation: Effects of the metarhodopsin I-metarhodopsin II equilibrium of neutralization or introduction of charged amino acids within putative transmembrane segments

1993 • 60 citations

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

1992 • 51 citations

Difference in Molecular Properties between Chicken Green and Rhodopsin as Related to the Functional Difference between Cone and Rod Photoreceptor Cells

1995 • 51 citations

Cloning and expression of frog rhodopsin cDNA

1995 • 49 citations

Circular Dichroism of Metaiodopsin II and Its Binding to Transducin: A Comparative Study between Meta II Intermediates of Iodopsin and Rhodopsin

1994 • 43 citations

THE ROAD TO COLOR VISION: STRUCTURE, EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF CHICKEN AND GECKO VISUAL PIGMENTS

1992 • 41 citations

Responses of the phototransduction cascade to dim light.

1996 • 40 citations

Effect of carboxyl mutations on functional properties of bovine rhodopsin

1995 • 36 citations

[Visual rhodopsin. III. Complete amino acid sequence and topography in a membrane].

1983 • 36 citations

Direct observation of the thermal equilibria among lumirhodopsin, metarhodopsin I, and metarhodopsin II in chicken rhodopsin

1994 • 28 citations

Molecular Properties of Chimerical Mutants of Gecko Blue and Bovine Rhodopsin

1996 • 27 citations

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