Timing is everything: GTPase regulation in phototransduction

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7725-7733

  Arshavsky, Vadim Y ^a   Wensel, Theodore G ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; R9AP PROTEIN; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84888113892     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-13281     Document Type: Article

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