The leber congenital amaurosis protein, AIPL1, is needed for the viability and functioning of cone photoreceptor cells

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1076-1087

  Kirschman, Lindsay T ^a   Kolandaivelu, Saravanan ^a,b   Frederick, Jeanne M ^c   Dang, Loan ^d   Goldberg, Andrew F X ^d   Baehr, Wolfgang ^c   Ramamurthy, Visvanathan ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN LIKE 1; EYE PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 6; ENZYME STABILITY; HUMANS; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TRANSGENES; VISION, OCULAR;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77950647146     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddp571     Document Type: Article

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