Photoreceptors and calcium

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Baehr Wolfgang.; Palczewski Krzysztof.
Published: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Landes Bioscience,
Publisher Address: New York Georgetown, TX
Publication Dates: c2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 514
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Carrier Form: xxiv, 625 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0306474158
Index Number: Q436
CLC: Q436
Call Number: Q436/P575
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Calcium and phototransduction -- The calcium gradient along the rod outer segment -- The time course of light adaptation in vertebrate retinal rods -- S-Modulin -- Ca-dependent control of rhodopsin phosphorylation : recoverin and rhodopsin kinase -- Recoverin and rhodopsin kinase -- Pathological roles of recoverin in cancer-associated retinopathy -- RGS9-1 phosphorylation and Ca -- Phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent protein kinase 5 of the regulatory subunit (γP) of retinal cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE6) : its implications in phototransduction -- Centrins, a novel group of Ca-binding proteins in vertebrate photoreceptor cells -- Tuning outer segment Ca homeostasis to phototransduction in rods and cones -- Regulation of the rod photoreceptor cyclic nucleotide-gated channel -- Ca-channels in the RPE -- The retinal rod and cone Na/Ca-K exchangers -- The complex of cGMP-gated channel and Na/Ca, K exchanger in rod photoreceptors -- Regulation of voltage-sensitive Ca channels in bipolar cells by divalent cations and polyamines -- Site-directed and natural mutations in studying functional domains in guanylyl cyclase activating proteins (GCAPs) -- Calmodulin and Ca-binding proteins (CaBPs) : variations on a theme -- GCAPs : Ca-sensitive regulators of retGC -- Structure and membrane-targeting mechanism of retinal Ca-binding proteins, recoverin and GCAP-2 -- Target recognition of guanylate cyclase by guanylate cyclase-activating proteins -- Mouse models to study GCAP functions in intact photoreceptors -- Calcium-dependent activation of guanylate cyclase by S100b -- The role of cadherins in Ca-mediated cell adhesion and inherited photoreceptor degeneration -- Guanylate cyclase activating proteins, guanylate cyclase and disease -- Using mutant mice to study the role of voltage-gated calcium channels in the retina -- Caldendrins in the inner retina -- Calcium channels at the photoreceptor synapse -- On bipolar cells : following in the footsteps of phototransduction -- Ca regulation of drosophila phototransduction -- Simultaneous roles for Ca in excitation and adaptation of limulus ventral photoreceptors -- Calcium homeostasis in fly photoreceptor cells -- Photoreceptor degeneration and Ca influx through light-activated channels of drosophila -- The TRP calcium channel and retinal degeneration.