"Schiff base deprotonation and structural changes in a mouse UV-sensitive cone visual pigment revealed by FTIR spectroscopy at 77 K" by Yosuke Mizuno, Sora Arai, Kota Katayama, Hideki Kandori is published in BPPB as the J-STAGE Advance Publication.
2025 November 21 BPPB
A following article is published as the J-STAGE Advance Publication in "Biophysics and Physicobiology".
Yosuke Mizuno, Sora Arai, Kota Katayama, Hideki Kandori
"Schiff base deprotonation and structural changes in a mouse UV-sensitive cone visual pigment revealed by FTIR spectroscopy at 77 K"
URL:https://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v22.0030
- Abstract
- UV-sensitive cone visual pigments are widespread among vertebrates, including birds, fish, and rodents such as mice, and play essential roles in non-primate vision. Unlike visible-light pigments, which contain a protonated retinal Schiff base and absorb at 400-700 nm, UV pigments maintain a deprotonated Schiff base, but how this state is stabilized has remained unresolved.
