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ArticleBiochemistry2010

Conservation of molecular interactions stabilizing bovine and mouse rhodopsin.

Shiho Kawamura, Alejandro T Colozo, Daniel J Müller, Paul S-H Park

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Article in Biochemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Aggregation of the Constitutively Active K296E Rhodopsin Mutant Contributes to Retinal Degeneration.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  13. Dynamic single-molecule force spectroscopy of rhodopsin in native membranes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2015
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  17. Cholesterol increases kinetic, energetic, and mechanical stability of the human β2-adrenergic receptor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shiho KawamuraDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Alejandro T Colozo
Daniel J Müller
Paul S-H Park
Case Western Reserve University · USETH Zurich · CH

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE AND HYBRIDOMA MODULEP30EY011373 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI Irina A Pikuleva · 1997 to 2026
$17.7M
Towards a structural and temporal understanding of phototransductionR00EY018085 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI PARK, PAUL S · 2008 to 2010
$825k
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY011373NEI NIH HHS P30EY11373NEI NIH HHS R00 EY018085NEI NIH HHS R00EY018085
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rhodopsin is the light receptor that initiates phototransduction in rod photoreceptor cells. The structure and function of rhodopsin are tightly linked to molecular interactions that stabilize and determine the receptor's functional state. Single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) was used to localize and quantify molecular interactions that structurally stabilize bovine and mouse rhodopsin from native disk membranes of rod photoreceptor cells. The mechanical unfolding of bovine and mouse rhodopsin revealed nine major unfolding intermediates, each intermediate defining a structurally stable segment in the receptor. These stable structural segments had similar localization and occurrence in both bovine and mouse samples. For each structural segment, parameters describing their unfolding energy barrier were determined by dynamic SMFS. No major differences were observed between bovine and mouse rhodopsin, thereby implying that the structures of both rhodopsins are largely stabilized by similar molecular interactions.

Indexed as

Conserved SequenceProtein UnfoldingAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCattleCell MembraneMiceMice, Inbred C57BLModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein StabilityRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsRhodopsinSpecies SpecificitySpectrum AnalysisRhodopsin

Identifiers

PMID21038881
PMCPMC2999666
OpenAlexW1990617924

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