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  • Title: Genetic basis of photopigment variations in human dichromats.
    Author: Neitz M, Neitz J, Jacobs GH.
    Journal: Vision Res; 1995 Aug; 35(15):2095-103. PubMed ID: 7667922.
    Abstract:
    The spectral sensitivities of the X-encoded pigments in dichromats were studied using the electroretinogram. The action spectra measured for these subjects correspond to four distinctly different X-encoded visual pigments, two different middle-wave pigments spectrally separated by 7 nm and two different long-wave pigments separated by 5 nm. Amino acid sequences were deduced from examination of the genes encoding the pigments. Pairwise comparisons of the opsin structures and pigment spectra confirm and clarify earlier conclusions. Substitutions in exon 5 of the genes produce the spectral difference that separates human X-encoded pigments into middle- and long-wave classes. Polymorphisms in exons 2-4 produce subtypes of pigments that fall within those major classes. Substitution of half of a middle-wave gene with long-wave sequence (exons 1-3) does not shift the middle-wave spectrum. Combined substitutions at positions 230, 233 and 180 produce a 7 nm shift in the in the middle-wave pigment spectrum. Two subtypes of long-wave pigments that differ in the presence of serine or alanine at position 180 and occur in dichromats, deuteranomalous trichromats, and color normals are spectrally separated by 5-7 nm.
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