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Chikwado A. Opefi

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Publications

7

Citations

252

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Active since

2010

Affiliations

University of Essex(Current)

Stony Brook University

University of Freiburg

Chikwado A. Opefi is an author at University of Essex specializing in life sciences, biochemistry, and molecular biophysics.

Publications per year

2010–2016

7

Publications

7

Highly conserved tyrosine stabilizes the active state of rhodopsin

Joseph A. Goncalves, Kieron South, Shivani Ahuja et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 82 citations

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Retinal orientation and interactions in rhodopsin reveal a two-stage trigger mechanism for activation

Naoki Kimata, Andreyah Pope, Markus Eilers et al. · Nature Communications · 2016 · 49 citations · Full text

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Rescue of mutant rhodopsin traffic by metformin-induced AMPK activation accelerates photoreceptor degeneration

Dimitra Athanasiou, Mònica Aguilà, Chikwado A. Opefi et al. · Human Molecular Genetics · 2016 · 45 citations · Full text

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Retinitis Pigmentosa Mutants Provide Insight into the Role of the N-terminal Cap in Rhodopsin Folding, Structure, and Function

Chikwado A. Opefi, Kieron South, Christopher A. Reynolds et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2013 · 39 citations · Full text

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Free backbone carbonyls mediate rhodopsin activation

Naoki Kimata, Andreyah Pope, Omar B. Sánchez-Reyes et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2016 · 16 citations · Full text

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