title: Primary structure of a visual pigment in bullfrog green rods.
abstract: In frog retina there are special rod photoreceptor cells ('green rods') with physiological properties similar to those of typical vertebrate rods ('red rods'). A cDNA fragment encoding the putative green rod visual pigment was isolated from a retinal cDNA library of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. Its deduced amino acid sequence has more than 65% identity with those of blue-sensitive cone pigments such as chicken blue and goldfish blue. Antisera raised against its C-terminal amino acid sequence recognized green rods. It is concluded that bullfrog green rods contain a visual pigment which is closely related to the blue-sensitive cone pigments of other non-mammalian vertebrates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hisatomi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsukahara
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tokunaga
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D029845:Amphibian Proteins; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005136:Eye Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011892:Rana catesbeiana; D012160:Retina / Q000648:ultrastructure; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry; D017948:Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013045:Species Specificity; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D029845:Amphibian Proteins; D005136:Eye Proteins; C118747:VP-MS protein, Rana catesbeiana