Mechanistic basis for the failure of cone transducin to translocate: Why cones are never blinded by light

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6815-6824

  Lobanova, Ekaterina S ^a   Herrmann, Rolf ^a   Finkelstein, Stella ^a   Reidel, Boris ^a   Skiba, Nikolai P ^a   Deng, Wen Tao ^b   Jo, Rebecca ^c   Weiss, Ellen R ^c   Hauswirth, William W ^b   Arshavsky, Vadim Y ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; LIGHT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; WILD TYPE;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASES; AGING; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE 1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNITS; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RGS PROTEINS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77952626874     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0613-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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