title: Primary structure and characterization of a bullfrog visual pigment contained in small single cones.
abstract: A cDNA fragment encoding a putative visual pigment (FCV pigment) was isolated from the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. Its deduced amino acid sequence shows high similarities to those of short wavelength-sensitive pigments such as human blue-, chicken violet- and goldfish ultraviolet-sensitive pigments. An antiserum against its C-terminal amino acid sequence recognized the outer segments of small cone photoreceptor cells without oil droplets. It is suggested that the FCV pigment is a short wavelength-sensitive pigment contained in small single cones which have not been characterized previously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hisatomi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kayada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tokunaga
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006054:Goldfish; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011892:Rana catesbeiana; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D012168:Retinal Pigments