Article
[The functional similarity of vertebrate rhodopsin and of a photosensitive pigment from the unicellular flagellate alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii].
Zhurnal evoliutsionnoi biokhimii i fiziologii - 1 Jan 2000
Korol'kov S N, Garnovskaia M N, Basov A S, Dumler I L
Abstract excerpt
Photoreceptor membranes in the bovine retina may be substituted in reconstructed systems by pigment fractions from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which account for GTP-dependent activation of cGMP-phosphodiesterase. Fractions from carotinoid-less mutant did not exhibit this capacity. The results obtai...
Topics
- 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases
- Animals
- Cattle
- Chlamydomonas
- Enzyme Activation
- Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate
- Light
- Mutation
- Photoreceptor Cells
- Pigments, Biological
- Retinal Pigments
- Rhodopsin
