Assembly of the Drosophila phototransduction cascade into a signalling complex shapes elementary responses

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6704, 1998, Pages 805-808

  Scott, Kristin ^a   Zuker, Charles S ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DROSOPHILA; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CALMODULIN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; LIGHT; MUTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0032558776     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27448     Document Type: Article

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