Publication Date:
1990-04-27
Description:
The gene encoding the 49-kilodalton protein that undergoes light-induced phosphorylation in the Drosophila photoreceptor has been isolated and characterized. The encoded protein has 401 amino acid residues and a molecular mass of 44,972 daltons, and it shares approximately 42 percent amino acid sequence identity with arrestin (S-antigen), which has been proposed to quench the light-induced cascade of guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate hydrolysis in vertebrate photoreceptors. Unlike the 49-kilodalton protein, however, arrestin, which appears to bind to phosphorylated rhodopsin, has not itself been reported to undergo phosphorylation. In vitro, Ca2+ was the only agent found that would stimulate the phosphorylation of the 49-kilodalton protein. The phosphorylation of this arrestin-like protein in vivo may therefore be triggered by a Ca2+ signal that is likely to be regulated by light-activated phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yamada, T -- Takeuchi, Y -- Komori, N -- Kobayashi, H -- Sakai, Y -- Hotta, Y -- Matsumoto, H -- EY06595/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Apr 27;248(4954):483-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2158671" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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*Antigens
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Arrestin
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Binding Sites
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Calcium/pharmacology
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Cloning, Molecular
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Cyclic GMP/metabolism
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DNA/genetics
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Drosophila melanogaster/*genetics
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Enzyme Activation/drug effects
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*Eye Proteins
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Isoelectric Point
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Molecular Weight
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Mutation
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Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase
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*Phosphoproteins/genetics/metabolism
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Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases/metabolism
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Phosphorylation
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Photoreceptor Cells/*analysis
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Protein Biosynthesis
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Restriction Mapping
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Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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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