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Ceramidase expression facilitates membrane turnover and endocytosis of rhodopsin in photoreceptors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Feb 2004
Acharya Usha, Mowen Michael Beth, Nagashima Kunio, Acharya Jairaj K
Abstract excerpt
Transgenic expression of ceramidase suppresses retinal degeneration in Drosophila arrestin and phospholipase C mutants. Here, we show that expression of ceramidase facilitates the dissolution of incompletely formed and inappropriately located elements of rhabdomeric membranes in ninaE(I17) mutants lacking the G protein receptor Rh1 in R1-R6 photoreceptor cells. Ceramidase expression facilitates the endocytic...
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