Publication Date:
1997-08-01
Description:
Heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptors are phosphorylated by kinases that mediate agonist-dependent receptor deactivation. Although many receptor kinases have been isolated, the corresponding phosphatases, necessary for restoring the ground state of the receptor, have not been identified. Drosophila RDGC (retinal degeneration C) is a phosphatase required for rhodopsin dephosphorylation in vivo. Loss of RDGC caused severe defects in the termination of the light response as well as extensive light-dependent retinal degeneration. These phenotypes resulted from the hyperphosphorylation of rhodopsin because expression of a truncated rhodopsin lacking the phosphorylation sites restored normal photoreceptor function. These results suggest the existence of a family of receptor phosphatases involved in the regulation of G protein-coupled signaling cascades.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vinos, J -- Jalink, K -- Hardy, R W -- Britt, S G -- Zuker, C S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Aug 1;277(5326):687-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9235891" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Animals, Genetically Modified
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Arrestin/metabolism
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*Calcium-Binding Proteins
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Darkness
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Drosophila
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*Drosophila Proteins
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Electroretinography
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GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism
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Light
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Mutation
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Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/genetics/*metabolism
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Phosphorylation
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Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/*metabolism
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Retina/metabolism
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Retinal Degeneration
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Rhodopsin/*metabolism
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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