Inventors:
Masashi Miyano - Hyogo, JP
Takashi Kumasaka - Hyogo, JP
Tetsuya Hori - Hyogo, JP
Hiroyuki Motoshima - Hyogo, JP
Tetsuji Okada - Hyogo, JP
Masaki Yamamoto - Hyogo, JP
Krzysztof Palczewski - Seattle WA, US
Craig Behnke - Seattle WA, US
Brian Fox - Seattle WA, US
Isolde Trong - Seattle WA, US
David Teller - Seattle WA, US
Ronald Stenkamp - Seattle WA, US
International Classification:
C07K014/705, C07H021/04, C12P021/02, C12N005/06
US Classification:
435/069100, 435/320100, 435/325000, 530/350000, 536/023500
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a three-dimensional structure of bovine rhodopsin. There is provided a G protein-coupled receptor selected from the group consisting of the following (a) and (b): (a) a G protein-coupled receptor having three-dimensional structure I defined by the atomic coordinates as shown in Table 1; (b) a G protein-coupled receptor having three-dimensional structure II defined by derived coordinates from the atomic coordinates as shown in Table 1, wherein the mean residual of the discrepancies between the positions of the carbon atoms in the amino acid residues of seven helix sites H-I (36-64), H-II (71-100), H-III (107-139), H-IV (151-173), H-V (200-225), H-VI (247-277) and H-VII (286-306) in the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 of the three-dimensional structure I and the positions of the corresponding carbon atoms in the amino acid residues of the corresponding seven helix sites of the three-dimensional structure II is 1.5 or less when an image of the three-dimensional structure I obtained by computer-processing the atomic coordinates of Table 1 and an image of the three-dimensional structure II obtained by computer-processing the derived coordinates are superposed.