Rhodopsins and Phototransduction (eBook)

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Professor George Wald Memorial Talk

RUTH HUBBARD and ELIJAH WALD

The ecology of visual pigments

J K BOWMAKER

Evolution of visual pigments and related molecules

FUMIO TOKUNAGA

Structure of rhodopsin obtained by electron cryo-microscopy

GEBHARD F X SCHERTLER

Photons, femtoseconds and dipolar interactions: a molecular picture of the primary events in vision

RICHARD A MATHIES

Photoactivation of rhodopsin: interplay between protein and chromophore

WILLEM J DEGRIP

Colour tuning mechanism of visual pigments

STEVEN W LIN

Amino acid residues controlling properties and functions of rod and cone visual pigments

YOSHINORI SHICHIDA

Signalling states of photoactivated rhodopsin

KLAUS PETER HOFMANN

Molecular mechanism of visual transduction

KRZYSZTOF PALCZEWSKI

Calcium-dependent regulation of rhodopsin phosphorylation

SATORU KAWAMURA

Emerging role of mass spectrometry in molecular biosciences: studies of protein phosphorylation in fly eyes as an example

HIROYUKI MATSUMOTO

Cyclic GMP-gated channel and peripherin/rds-rom-1 complex of rod cells

ROBERT S MOLDAY

Non-visual photoreception by a variety of vertebrate opsins

DAISUKE KOJIMA

"This book provides and excellent summary of current work on
photopigments and transduction. It should be particularly useful to
those vision scientists and other whose primary interests lie
elsewhere." (Opthal & Physiolog. Optics , Vol.21, No.5, 2001)