Functional expression in vitro of bovine visual rhodopsin

Autor: Sergey Zozulya, M.Yu. Natochin, Boris E. Shmukler, M.N. Garnovskaya, Shirokova Ep, Dumler Il, T.A. Zvyaga, Vsevolod V. Gurevich, Badalov Pr
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Protein engineering. 3(5)
ISSN: 0269-2139
Popis: Expression of functionally active bovine visual rhodopsin was achieved by sequential transcription and translation in vitro of rhodopsin gene cDNA with co-translational insertion of the protein into phosphatidylcholine liposomes. The recombinant rhodopsin has functional, spectral and immunochemical properties similar to those of natural rhodopsin from bovine retina. Two mutant rhodopsins, Cys316----Ser and Asp330----Asn, Asp331----Asn, were produced by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis. The first mutation does not affect rhodopsin's ability to stimulate transducin GTPase and visual cGMP phosphodiesterase activities, while the second double mutation leads to a sharp decrease in rhodopsin activity.
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