Release Date: 07 January, 2000
Hardcover
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Review
"This book provides and excellent summary of current work on photopigments and transduction. It should be particularly useful to those vision scientists and other whose primary interests lie elsewhere." (Opthal & Physiolog. Optics , Vol.21, No.5, 2001)
Review
"This book provides and excellent summary of current work on photopigments and transduction. It should be particularly useful to those vision scientists and other whose primary interests lie elsewhere." (Opthal & Physiolog. Optics , Vol.21, No.5, 2001)
Book Description
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.
Book Info
Based on the Symposium on Rhodopsins and phototransduction, held in Kyoto, Japan on October 26-28, 1998. Current data are presented on the photoreceptive mechanism of rhodopsins, the molecular mechanism of the visual transduction process, visual processes in the brain, and other transduction processes in the retina and brain.
From the Back Cover
Rhodopsins are.photosensitive proteins with a retinal as the chromophore, and are composed of seven transmembrane helices embedded in the membranes. They function as the photoreceptor proteins for visual transduction and extraocular systems. Upon absorption of light the region-specific isomerization of the retinal chromophore takes place, which is the switching mechanism of the visual transduction process and induces a conformational change of the protein moiety in the rhodopsin molecule. Metarhodopsin II, an intermediate in the bleaching process of rhodopsin, interacts with a G protein and mediates the light signal for further transduction processing in the visual cell. In the past few years, it has been shown that rhodopsin belongs to a large receptor family and that the general mechanism of the signal transduction mediated by this receptor family is almost universal. Fully interdisciplinary, this book brings together protein chemists, molecular biologists, structural biologists, biophysicists, biochemists and photobiologists to discuss their work. Recent data are presented on 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. This book is dedicated to the memory of George Wald. Rating 4.0
A very good book!It's a rare pleasure to see a book only talks about phototransduction. |
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