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F Tokunaga1, T Iwasa, M Miyagishi, S Kayada.
Abstract
The chicken has four kinds of color visual pigments, in addition to rhodopsin. A chicken genomic DNA library was screened with cDNA of human red-sensitive pigment and a chicken genomic DNA fragment including rhodopsin exons 2, 3 and 4, and then a genomic DNA fragment encoding a visual pigment, possibly an iodopsin, was cloned. A cDNA library, constructed from chicken retina mRNA, was screened with the genomic DNA fragment and the cDNA of human red-sensitive pigment, and the cDNA encoding the pigment was cloned. The nucleotide sequence of this cDNA was similar to that of the human red-sensitive pigment, with identities of 78% for the nucleotide sequence and 84% for the amino acid sequence with human red-sensitive pigment.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID： 2268324 DOI： 10.1016/s0006-291x(05)80915-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN： 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575