视紫红质
突变体
神经科学
生物
化学
细胞生物学
心理学
遗传学
视网膜
生物化学
基因
作者
Phyllis R. Robinson,George B. Cohen,Eugene A. Zhukovsky,Daniel D. Oprian
出处
期刊:Neuron
[Elsevier]
日期:1992-10-01
卷期号:9 (4): 719-725
被引量:485
标识
DOI:10.1016/0896-6273(92)90034-b
摘要
Abstract
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 Glu-113, the Schiff base counterion. Mutation of Lys-296 or Glu-113 results in constitutive activation of opsin, as assayed by its ability to activate transducin in the absence of added chromophore. We conclude that opsin is constrained to an inactive conformation by a salt bridge between Lys-296 and Glu-113. Recently, one of the mutants, K296E, was found in a family with retinitis pigmentosa, suggesting that degeneration of the photoreceptor cells in individuals with this mutation may result from persistent stimulation of the phototransduction pathway.
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