Ikuo Takeuchi & Gregory R. Bock 
Rhodopsins and Phototransduction [PDF ebook] 

Brings together key new results of interdisciplinary collaborations among various research fields on rhodopsin including the photoreceptive mechanism of rhodopsins, the molecular mechanism of the visual transduction process, visual processes in the retina and other transduction processes in the retina and brain.

The structures of the rhodopsin molecule are studied in the fields of protein chemistry, molecular biology, organic chemistry and structural biology; the ultra fast reactions of the retinal protein are studied in physics, biophysics, physical chemistry, organic chemistry and photobiology; the phototransduction in retinal proteins and visual cells are studied in biophysics, biochemistry, biophysical chemistry and photobiology; and the localization in the tissues is studied in anatomy and histochemistry. The diversity of visual systems in various animals is studied in zoology and comparative biochemistry.

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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

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