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  • Title: Identification of a single phosphorylation site within octopus rhodopsin.
    Author: Ohguro H, Yoshida N, Shindou H, Crabb JW, Palczewski K, Tsuda M.
    Journal: Photochem Photobiol; 1998 Dec; 68(6):824-8. PubMed ID: 9867032.
    Abstract:
    Light-dependent phosphorylation of rhodopsin (Rho) is a first step in the desensitization of the signaling state of the receptor during vertebrate and invertebrate visual transduction. We found that only 358Ser of the photoactivated octopus Rho (oRho*) was phosphorylated by octopus rhodopsin kinase (oRK). Tryptic truncation of the C-terminal PPQGY repeats of oRho that follow the phosphorylation region did not influence spectral or G-protein activation properties of oRho but abolished phosphorylation. Despite significant structural differences between oRK and mammalian RK, these results provide further evidence of the importance of singly phosphorylated species of Rho* in the generation of arrestin binding sites.
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