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Rhodopsin and Phototransduction
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 1999Recent studies on rhodopsin structure and function are reviewed and the properties of vertebrate as well as invertebrate rhodopsin described. Open issues such as the 'red shift' of the absorbance spectra are emphasized in the light of the present model of the retinal-binding pocket. The processes that restore the rhodopsin content in photoreceptors are
I M Pepe
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2002
Visual phototransduction, the conversion of incoming light to an electrical signal, takes place in the outer segments of the rod and cone photoreceptor cells. Light reduces the concentration of cGMP, which, in darkness, keeps open cationic channels present in the plasma membrane of the outer segment. Ca2+ plays an important role in phototransduction by
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Visual phototransduction, the conversion of incoming light to an electrical signal, takes place in the outer segments of the rod and cone photoreceptor cells. Light reduces the concentration of cGMP, which, in darkness, keeps open cationic channels present in the plasma membrane of the outer segment. Ca2+ plays an important role in phototransduction by
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Evolution of Opsins and Phototransduction [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009 Opsins are the universal photoreceptor molecules of all visual systems in the animal kingdom. They can change their conformation from a resting state to a signalling state upon light absorption, which activates the G protein, thereby resulting in a signalling cascade that produces physiological responses.
Yoshinori, Shichida, Take, Matsuyama
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Rhodopsin and Phototransduction
1993Publisher Summary When light strikes a rod photoreceptor cell in the retina, rhodopsin molecules become photoexcited and a series of biochemical events rapidly follows. Photoexcited rhodopsin activates a G protein, transducin, which in turn activates a cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-phosphodiesterase (PDE).
P A, Hargrave, J H, McDowell
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Phototransduction: crystal clear
Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2003Vertebrate visual phototransduction represents one of the best-characterized G-protein-coupled receptor-mediated signaling pathways. Structural analyses of rhodopsin, G protein, arrestin and several other phototransduction components have revealed common folds and motifs that are important for function.
Kevin D, Ridge +3 more
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Phototransduction in transgenic mice
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1996Transgenic mice provide a powerful tool for elucidating the molecular mechanisms of phototransduction. Mice expressing a phosphorylation-deficient rhodopsin and mice deficient in arrestin are being used to study shutoff of photoactivated rhodopsin. These in vivo mouse studies indicate that shutoff is partially mediated by rhodopsin phosphorylation ...
J, Lem, C L, Makino
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G Proteins and Phototransduction
Annual Review of Physiology, 2002▪ Abstract  Phototransduction is the process by which a photon of light captured by a molecule of visual pigment generates an electrical response in a photoreceptor cell. Vertebrate rod phototransduction is one of the best-studied G protein signaling pathways. In this pathway the photoreceptor-specific G protein, transducin, mediates between the visual
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