Connection

Masahiro Kono to Animals

This is a "connection" page, showing publications Masahiro Kono has written about Animals.
Connection Strength

0.485
  1. Cone Health and Retinoids. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2015; 134:465-76.
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    Score: 0.037
  2. Ligand control of g protein-coupled receptor activity: new insights. Chem Biol. 2014 Mar 20; 21(3):309-10.
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    Score: 0.034
  3. Light prevents exogenous 11-cis retinal from maintaining cone photoreceptors in chromophore-deficient mice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Apr; 52(5):2412-6.
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    Score: 0.027
  4. Probing human red cone opsin activity with retinal analogues. J Nat Prod. 2011 Mar 25; 74(3):391-4.
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    Score: 0.027
  5. In vitro assays of rod and cone opsin activity: retinoid analogs as agonists and inverse agonists. Methods Mol Biol. 2010; 652:85-94.
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    Score: 0.025
  6. Assays for inverse agonists in the visual system. Methods Enzymol. 2010; 485:213-24.
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    Score: 0.025
  7. The action of 11-cis-retinol on cone opsins and intact cone photoreceptors. J Biol Chem. 2009 Jun 12; 284(24):16492-16500.
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    Score: 0.024
  8. 11-cis- and all-trans-retinols can activate rod opsin: rational design of the visual cycle. Biochemistry. 2008 Jul 15; 47(28):7567-71.
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    Score: 0.023
  9. Engineering a "steric doorstop" in rhodopsin: converting an inverse agonist to an agonist. Biochemistry. 2007 Oct 30; 46(43):12248-52.
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    Score: 0.022
  10. Rhodopsin deactivation is affected by mutations of Tyrl91. Photochem Photobiol. 2006 Nov-Dec; 82(6):1442-6.
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    Score: 0.020
  11. Constitutive activity of a UV cone opsin. FEBS Lett. 2006 Jan 09; 580(1):229-32.
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    Score: 0.019
  12. A dark and constitutively active mutant of the tiger salamander UV pigment. Biochemistry. 2005 Jan 18; 44(2):799-804.
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    Score: 0.018
  13. Sphingolipid Levels and Processing of the Retinyl Chromophore in the Retina of a Mouse Model of Niemann-Pick Disease. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2024 Dec 02; 65(14):24.
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    Score: 0.018
  14. The First Steps of the Visual Cycle in Human Rod and Cone Photoreceptors. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2024 Jul 01; 65(8):9.
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    Score: 0.017
  15. Role of the 9-methyl group of retinal in cone visual pigments. Biochemistry. 2004 May 11; 43(18):5532-8.
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    Score: 0.017
  16. Apo-Opsin and Its Dark Constitutive Activity across Retinal Cone Subtypes. Curr Biol. 2020 12 21; 30(24):4921-4931.e5.
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    Score: 0.013
  17. Photooxidation mediated by 11-cis and all-trans retinal in single isolated mouse rod photoreceptors. Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2020 Oct 14; 19(10):1300-1307.
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    Score: 0.013
  18. Disulfide bond exchange in rhodopsin. Biochemistry. 1998 Feb 03; 37(5):1302-5.
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    Score: 0.011
  19. A2E and Lipofuscin. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2015; 134:449-63.
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    Score: 0.009
  20. Photoactivation-induced instability of rhodopsin mutants T4K and T17M in rod outer segments underlies retinal degeneration in X. laevis transgenic models of retinitis pigmentosa. J Neurosci. 2014 Oct 01; 34(40):13336-48.
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    Score: 0.009
  21. Coexpression of three opsins in cone photoreceptors of the salamander Ambystoma tigrinum. J Comp Neurol. 2014 Jul 01; 522(10):2249-65.
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    Score: 0.009
  22. Explant cultures of Rpe65-/- mouse retina: a model to investigate cone opsin trafficking. Mol Vis. 2013; 19:1149-57.
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    Score: 0.008
  23. New insights into retinoid metabolism and cycling within the retina. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2013 Jan; 32:48-63.
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    Score: 0.008
  24. Modulation of molecular interactions and function by rhodopsin palmitylation. Biochemistry. 2009 May 26; 48(20):4294-304.
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    Score: 0.006
  25. Differences in the pharmacological activation of visual opsins. Vis Neurosci. 2006 Nov-Dec; 23(6):899-908.
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    Score: 0.005
  26. Palmitylation of cone opsins. Vision Res. 2006 Dec; 46(27):4493-501.
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    Score: 0.005
  27. Crystal structure of cone arrestin at 2.3A: evolution of receptor specificity. J Mol Biol. 2005 Dec 16; 354(5):1069-80.
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    Score: 0.005
  28. Breaking the covalent bond--a pigment property that contributes to desensitization in cones. Neuron. 2005 Jun 16; 46(6):879-90.
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    Score: 0.005
  29. Structural origins of constitutive activation in rhodopsin: Role of the K296/E113 salt bridge. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Aug 24; 101(34):12508-13.
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    Score: 0.004
  30. A novel Xenopus SWS2, P434 visual pigment: structure, cellular location, and spectral analyses. Mol Vis. 2003 May 16; 9:191-9.
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    Score: 0.004
  31. A visual pigment expressed in both rod and cone photoreceptors. Neuron. 2001 Nov 08; 32(3):451-61.
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    Score: 0.004
  32. Mass spectrometric analysis of integral membrane proteins at the subnanomolar level: application to recombinant photopigments. Anal Chem. 2001 Oct 15; 73(20):4774-9.
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    Score: 0.004
  33. Salamander UV cone pigment: sequence, expression, and spectral properties. Vis Neurosci. 2001 May-Jun; 18(3):393-9.
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    Score: 0.003
  34. State-dependent disulfide cross-linking in rhodopsin. Biochemistry. 1999 Sep 14; 38(37):12028-32.
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    Score: 0.003
  35. Tertiary interactions between the fifth and sixth transmembrane segments of rhodopsin. Biochemistry. 1999 May 18; 38(20):6597-603.
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    Score: 0.003
  36. A general method for mapping tertiary contacts between amino acid residues in membrane-embedded proteins. Biochemistry. 1995 Nov 21; 34(46):14963-9.
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    Score: 0.002
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