Transducin translocation in rods is triggered by saturation of the GTPase-activating complex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1151-1160

  Lobanova, Ekaterina S ^a   Finkelstein, Stella ^a   Song, Hongman ^b   Tsang, Stephen H ^c   Chen, Ching Kang ^d   Sokolov, Maxim ^e   Skiba, Nikolai P ^a   Arshavsky, Vadim Y ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e West Virginia University Eye Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

GTPase; Photoreceptor; Protein translocation; Retina; Transducin; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ACYLATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT INTENSITY; METABOLIC STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA ROD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 33846829547     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5010-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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