Photoreceptors in pineal gland and brain: Cloning, localization, and overexpression

TY - JOUR

T1 - Photoreceptors in pineal gland and brain

T2 - Cloning, localization, and overexpression

AU - Okano, Toshiyuki

AU - Fukada, Yoshitaka

N1 - Funding Information: We thank Mr. Atsushi Nakamura and Dr. Daisuke Kojima (in our laboratory) for technical assistance in overexpression of pinopsin, Dr. Fumio Tokunaga (at Osaka University) for providing expression vector pUSRa, and Dr. Jeremy Nathans (at Johns Hopkins University) for the kind gifts of pRSV-Tag and 293S cells. This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture. Funding Information: We thank Dr. H. Bayley for the a-toxin clones, Grace P. Yang for technical assistance, and Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski for guidance during these studies. Confocal microscopy was conducted with the assistance of Paulette Brunner and the Keck Center for Advanced Studies of Neural Signaling at the University of Washington. This research was supported by NIH Grants EY08061 and EY06935 (R.N.F.) and an award from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington.

PY - 2000

Y1 - 2000

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U2 - 10.1016/s0076-6879(00)16729-1

DO - 10.1016/s0076-6879(00)16729-1

M3 - Review article

C2 - 10800681

AN - SCOPUS:0034107619

VL - 316

SP - 278

EP - 291

JO - Methods in Enzymology

JF - Methods in Enzymology

SN - 0076-6879

ER -