Transducin translocation contributes to rod survival and enhances synaptic transmission from rods to rod bipolar cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 12468-12473

  Majumder, Anurima ^a   Pahlberg, Johan ^b   Boyd, Kimberly K ^a   Kerov, Vasily ^a   Kolandaivelu, Saravanan ^c   Ramamurthy, Visvanathan ^c   Sampath, Alapakkam P ^b   Artemyev, Nikolai O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c West Virginia University Eye Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Palmitoylation; Presynaptic modulation; Retina; SNARE complex

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; DESENSITIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADAPTATION; PALMITOYLATION; PRESYNAPTIC MODULATION; RETINA; SNARE COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 84880695330     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222666110     Document Type: Article

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