AIPL1, a protein linked to blindness, is essential for the stability of enzymes mediating cGMP metabolism in cone photoreceptor cells

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1002-1012

  Kolandaivelu, Saravanan ^a   Singh, Ratnesh K ^a   Ramamurthy, Visvanathan ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN LIKE 1; CELL PROTEIN; CONE OPSIN; CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE VI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STABILITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 6; ENZYME STABILITY; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HUMANS; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84892998822     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt496     Document Type: Article

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