Light-sensitive coupling of rhodopsin and melanopsin to Gi/o and Gq signal transduction in Caenorhabditis elegans

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 480-491

  Cao, Pengxiu ^a   Sun, Wenyu ^b   Kramp, Kristopher ^a   Zheng, Maohua ^a   Salom, David ^b   Jastrzebska, Beata ^a   Jin, Hui ^a   Palczewski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Feng, Zhaoyang ^a,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Polgenix Inc   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

G protein signaling; Optogenetics

Indexed keywords

9 CIS RETINAL; CYCLIC AMP; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR GQ; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MELANOPSIN; OPSIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE C BETA; RETINAL; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

3',5'-CYCLIC-AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GQ-G11; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN; ROD OPSINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BOVINAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84856516788     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-197798     Document Type: Article

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