Article
Structure and mechanisms of function of visual system proteins.
Membrane & cell biology - 1 Jan 2000
Lipkin V M, Obukhov A N
Abstract excerpt
Recent progress in understanding visual signal transduction in retinal cells is summarized. The roles of particular proteins in activation, amplification and termination of the photoresponse are described. Detailed information on the structure and function of the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin is presented. The latest data on visual pigment sequences, rhodopsin mutations in the autosomal-dominant retinitis...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Humans
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Ocular Physiological Phenomena
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate
- Rhodopsin
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Signal Transduction
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Vision, Ocular
