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Visual Signal Transduction Pathway

Known as: Visual Signal Transduction 
The signal transduction cascade responsible for sensing light in vertebrates is one of the best studied signal transduction processes, and is… 
National Institutes of Health

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ARRB1 wt AlleleBeta-Arrestin-1, humanRHO wt AlleleRhodopsin, Human

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Review
2010
Review
2010
What site-directed labeling studies tell us about the mechanism of rhodopsin activation and G-protein binding
Rhodopsin is the photoreceptor protein responsible for dim-light vision in mammals. Due to extensive biophysical, structural and… 
2006
2006
Rhodopsin–transducin coupling: Role of the Gα C-terminus in nucleotide exchange catalysis
2006
2006
A novel role for a Drosophila homologue of cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase in the active transport of cGMP.
cGMP was first discovered in urine, demonstrating that kidney cells extrude this cyclic nucleotide. Drosophila Malpighian tubules… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Multifaceted roles of nitric oxide in the lateral geniculate nucleus: from visual signal transduction to neuronal apoptosis.
2001
2001
Probing the dark state tertiary structure in the cytoplasmic domain of rhodopsin: proximities between amino acids deduced from spontaneous disulfide bond formation between Cys316 and engineered…
A dark state tertiary structure in the cytoplasmic domain of rhodopsin is presumed to be the key to the restriction of binding of… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Photoreceptor rhodopsin: structural and conformational study of its chromophore 11‐cis retinal in oriented membranes by deuterium solid state NMR
1998
1998
Purification, G protein activation, and partial amino acid sequence of a novel phospholipase C from squid photoreceptors.
Invertebrate visual signal transduction is initiated by rhodopsin activation of a guanine nucleotide binding protein, Gq, which… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Heterogeneous N-acylation is a tissue- and species-specific posttranslational modification.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Methylation and demethylation reactions of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins of retinal rod outer segments.
Retinal transducin was previously shown to be farnesylated on its gamma subunit. This farnesylation reaction on a cysteine… 
1987
1987
A structural model for the α‐subunit of transducin Implications of its role as a molecular switch in the visual signal transduction mechanism
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