Membrane protein transport in photoreceptors: The function of pdeδ

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8653-8666

  Baehr, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Phototransduction; Protein trafficking; Proteinprenylation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 2; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 3; ARF PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSDUCIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE VI; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA PROTEIN 2; RHODOPSIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TRANSDUCIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; JOUBERT SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PRENYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VISION;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASES; ADP-RIBOSYLATION FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 6; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROTEIN PRENYLATION; TRANSDUCIN; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84939824297     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-16066     Document Type: Article

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