Defects in RGS9 or its anchor protein R9AP in patients with slow photoreceptor deactivation

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6969, 2004, Pages 75-78

  Nishiguchi, Koji M ^a   Sandberg, Michael A ^a   Kooijman, Aart C ^b   Martemyanov, Kirill A ^a   Pott, Jan W R ^b   Hagstrom, Stephanie A ^a,c   Arshavsky, Vadim Y ^a   Berson, Eliot L ^a   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PROTEINS; SIGNALING;

MUTATIONS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; R9AP PROTEIN; RGS PROTEIN; RGS9 PROTEIN; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BRADYOPSIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RGS PROTEINS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0346562868     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02170     Document Type: Article

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