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"In situ" observation of the role of chloride ion binding to monkey green sensitive visual pigment by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

A natural point mutation in the bitter taste receptor TAS2R16 causes inverse agonism of arbutin in lemur gustation

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Amino acid residues responsible for the meta-III decay rates in rod and cone visual pigments.

scientific article published on February 2005

An FTIR study of monkey green- and red-sensitive visual pigments.

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Analysis of amino acid residues in rhodopsin and cone visual pigments that determine their molecular properties

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Assignment of the vibrational modes of the chromophores of iodopsin and bathoiodopsin: low-temperature fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of 13C- and 2H-labeled iodopsins.

scientific article published in January 2006

Association of the endothelial protein C receptor (PROCR) rs867186-G allele with protection from severe malaria

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

Chimeric nature of pinopsin between rod and cone visual pigments

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Chloride effect on iodopsin studied by low-temperature visible and infrared spectroscopies.

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Chondroitinase ABC treatment enhances synaptogenesis between transplant and host neurons in model of retinal degeneration

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Co-Opted Megasatellite DNA Drives Evolution of Secondary Night Vision in Azara's Owl Monkey.

scientific article published on July 2017

Conserved proline residue at position 189 in cone visual pigments as a determinant of molecular properties different from rhodopsins.

scientific article published on December 2002

Correlation between Nuptial Colors and Visual Sensitivities Tuned by Opsins Leads to Species Richness in Sympatric Lake Victoria Cichlid Fishes ⬇️

scientific article published on May 21, 2012

Dichromatism in macaque monkeys.

scientific article published in November 1999

Difference in Molecular Properties between Chicken Green and Rhodopsin as Related to the Functional Difference between Cone and Rod Photoreceptor Cells ⬇️

scientific article published on August 22, 1995

Difference in molecular structure of rod and cone visual pigments studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

scientific article published in March 2001

Direct observation of the complex formation of GDP-bound transducin with the rhodopsin intermediate having a visible absorption maximum in rod outer segment membranes.

scientific article published in July 2005

Direct observation of the thermal equilibria among lumirhodopsin, metarhodopsin I, and metarhodopsin II in chicken rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Diversification of bitter taste receptor gene family in western chimpanzees

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

E113 is required for the efficient photoisomerization of the unprotonated chromophore in a UV-absorbing visual pigment.

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Eco-Geographical Diversification of Bitter Taste Receptor Genes (TAS2Rs) among Subspecies of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) ⬇️

scientific article published on August 16, 2012

Effect of anion binding on the thermal reverse reaction of bathoiodopsin: anion stabilizes two forms of iodopsin.

scientific article published in November 2003

Effect of chloride on the thermal reverse reaction of intermediates of iodopsin

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Enhancer Function of MicroRNA-3681 Derived from Long Terminal Repeats Represses the Activity of Variable Number Tandem Repeats in the 3' UTR of SHISA7

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Evolution of the bitter taste receptor TAS2R38 in colobines

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Evolution of the sperm methylome of primates is associated with retrotransposon insertions and genome instability

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Expression analysis of taste signal transduction molecules in the fungiform and circumvallate papillae of the rhesus macaque, Macaca mulatta.

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Expression and localization of an exogenous G protein-coupled receptor fused with the rhodopsin C-terminal sequence in the retinal rod cells of knockin mice.

scientific article published in June 2005

Expression of Bitter Taste Receptors in the Intestinal Cells of Non-Human Primates

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Farnesylation of retinal transducin underlies its translocation during light adaptation

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First report of foregut microbial community in proboscis monkeys: are diverse forests a reservoir for diverse microbiomes?

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Functional characterization of the TAS2R38 bitter taste receptor for phenylthiocarbamide in colobine monkeys

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Functional decline of sweet taste sensitivity of colobine monkeys

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Functional divergence of the bitter receptor TAS2R38 in Sulawesi macaques

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Functional diversity of bitter taste receptor TAS2R16 in primates

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

High maltose sensitivity of sweet taste receptors in the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata).

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Identical Hydrogen-Bonding Strength of the Retinal Schiff Base between Primate Green- and Red-Sensitive Pigments: New Insight into Color Tuning Mechanism.

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Identification of a new intermediate state that binds but not activates transducin in the bleaching process of bovine rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Identification of a protanomalous chimpanzee by molecular genetic and electroretinogram analyses.

scientific article published on 16 December 2004

Identification of non-taster Japanese macaques for a specific bitter taste

scientific article published on 28 July 2010

Is chicken green-sensitive cone visual pigment a rhodopsin-like pigment? A comparative study of the molecular properties between chicken green and rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

Molecular properties of rhodopsin and rod function

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Molecular properties of rod and cone visual pigments from purified chicken cone pigments to mouse rhodopsin in situ.

scientific article published on 25 May 2005

Morphological characteristics and genetic diversity of Burmese long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea).

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Movement of retinal along the visual transduction path

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Novel missense mutations in red/green opsin genes in congenital color-vision deficiencies.

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Novel variable number of tandem repeats of gibbon MAOA gene and its evolutionary significance

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Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi

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Photochemical and biochemical properties of chicken blue-sensitive cone visual pigment.

scientific article published in October 1997

Photoisomerization efficiency in UV-absorbing visual pigments: protein-directed isomerization of an unprotonated retinal Schiff base

scientific article published on 03 May 2007

Physiological properties of rod photoreceptor cells in green-sensitive cone pigment knock-in mice.

scientific article published on July 2007

Presence of Two Rhodopsin Intermediates Responsible for Transducin Activation ⬇️

scientific article published on November 18, 1997

Probing for the threshold energy for visual transduction: red-shifted visual pigment analogs from 3-methoxy-3-dehydroretinal and related compounds

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Protein-bound water molecules in primate red- and green-sensitive visual pigments.

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Purification and low temperature spectroscopy of gecko visual pigments green and blue.

scientific article published in January 1995

Rapid Expansion of Phenylthiocarbamide Non-Tasters among Japanese Macaques.

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Reverse evolution in RH1 for adaptation of cichlids to water depth in Lake Tanganyika.

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Role of Gln114 in Spectral Tuning of a Long-Wavelength Sensitive Visual Pigment

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Short communication: expression profiles of endogenous retroviral envelopes in Macaca mulatta (rhesus monkey).

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Single-neuron and genetic correlates of autistic behavior in macaque.

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Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish.

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Spectral Tuning Mechanism of Primate Blue-sensitive Visual Pigment Elucidated by FTIR Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

Spectral sensitivity of guppy visual pigments reconstituted in vitro to resolve association of opsins with cone cell types.

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

Sporadic premature aging in a Japanese monkey: a primate model for progeria

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Stage-specific association of apolipoprotein A-I and E in developing mouse retina

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Stereoselective synthesis of 11Z-9-demethyl-9-benzyl- and 9-phenyl-retinals and their interaction with bovine opsin

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Synthesis of 11Z-8,18-propano- and methano-retinals and their interaction with bovine opsin

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

The convergent evolution of blue iris pigmentation in primates took distinct molecular paths.

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The life history of retrocopies illuminates the evolution of new mammalian genes

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Thermal recovery of iodopsin from its meta I-intermediate

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Two distinct determinants of ligand specificity in T1R1/T1R3 (the umami taste receptor).

scientific article published on 8 November 2013

Two-step mechanism of interaction of rhodopsin intermediates with the C-terminal region of the transducin alpha-subunit.

scientific article published in August 2003

Variation in ligand responses of the bitter taste receptors TAS2R1 and TAS2R4 among New World monkeys.

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Variations in long- and middle-wavelength-sensitive opsin gene loci in crab-eating monkeys

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Vertebrate rhodopsin adaptation to dim light via rapid meta-II intermediate formation

scientific article published on 25 October 2009

Visual adaptation in Lake Victoria cichlid fishes: depth-related variation of color and scotopic opsins in species from sand/mud bottoms

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Visual pigment: G-protein-coupled receptor for light signals

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

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