Organisms of all domains of life use photoreceptor proteins to sense and respond to light.
The light-sensitivity of photoreceptor proteins arises from bound chromophores such as …

The light sensor of vertebrate scotopic (low-light) vision, rhodopsin, is a G-protein-coupled
receptor comprising a polypeptide chain with bound chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, that …

The characteristic wavelength at which a visual pigment absorbs light is regulated by
interactions between protein (opsin) and retinylidene Schiff base chromophore. By using site …

In the G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin, the conserved NPxxY (x) 5, 6F motif connects
the transmembrane helix VII and the cytoplasmic helix 8. The less geometrically constrained …

We report here the high-level expression of a synthetic gene for bovine rhodopsin in
transfected monkey kidney COS-1 cells. Rhodopsin is produced in these cells to a level of …

Two critical amino acids in the visual pigment rhodopsin are Lys-296, the site of attachment
of retinal to the protein through a protonated Schiff base linkage, and Clu-113, the Schiff …

The proposal that the absorption maximum of the visual pigments is governed by interaction
of the 11-cis-retinal chromophore with charged carboxylic acid side chains in the membrane …

Revised Manuscript Received February 23, 1994® abstract: Autosomal dominant retinitis
pigmentosa (ADRP) is a hereditary form of retinitis pigmentosa which accounts for about …

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To investigate the role of different cysteine residues in bovine rhodopsin, a series of mutants
were prepared in which the cysteine residues were systematically replaced by serines. The …