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. 1984 Feb 1;217(3):605–613. doi: 10.1042/bj2170605

Sequence variability in the retinal-attachment domain of mammalian rhodopsins.

D J Pappin, J B Findlay
PMCID: PMC1153260  PMID: 6370231

Abstract

Ovine rhodopsin was regenerated with 11-cis-[15-3H]retinal and cleaved in situ by Staphylococcus aureus V8 proteinase to give two membrane-bound fragments of Mr 27 000 (V8-L) and 12 000 (V8-S). After purification of the proteolysed complex by affinity chromatography with concanavalin A-Sepharose 4B, [3H]retinal was covalently linked to the protein by reduction with borohydride. The purified [3H]-retinyl V8-S fragment was cleaved with CNBr and trifluoroacetic acid, the resulting peptides resolved by gel filtration and the [3H]retinyl peptide sequenced. The protocol developed for the isolation and sequencing of this region of the ovine protein was applied directly, and reproducibly, to bleached and unregenerated porcine and equine opsins. Comparisons of the primary structures of the fragments reveals marked variation in the sequence immediately after the lysine residue shown in the ovine protein to be the attachment point for the aldehyde group of the chromophore. Mutable positions are localized in regions previously predicted as adopting nonregular or distorted conformations and hint at structural arrangements that may provide a better understanding of the spectral and functional properties of the visual pigment.

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