Molecular physiology of bestrophins: Multifunctional membrane proteins linked to best disease and other retinopathies

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 639-672

  Hartzell, H Criss ^a   Qu, Zhiqiang ^a   Yu, Kuai ^a   Xiao, Qinghuan ^a   Chien, Li Ting ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); BESTROPHIN; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT VITELLIFORM MACULAR DYSTROPHY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT VITREORETINOCHOROIDOPATHY; BEST VITELLIFORM MACULAR DYSTROPHY; CANINE MULTIFOCAL RETINOPATHY; CELL SECRETION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EYE DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA VITELLIFORM DEGENERATION; RETINOPATHY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 42149185064     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00022.2007     Document Type: Review

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