Cloning and characterization of the cDNA and gene encoding the γ-subunit of cGMP-phosphodiesterase in canine retinal rod photoreceptor cells

Gene

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-5

  Wang, Weiquan ^a   Acland, Gregory M ^a   Aguirre, Gustavo D ^a   Ray, Kunal ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Canine photoreceptors; Exon intron structure; Retinal degeneration; Retinitis pigmentosa; Visual transduction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TRANSDUCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA DETERMINATION; DOG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RODS (RETINA); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BOVINAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030605245     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00319-8     Document Type: Article

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