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Role of photoreceptor-specific retinol dehydrogenase in the retinoid cycle in vivo.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 13 May 2005
Maeda Akiko, Maeda Tadao, Imanishi Yoshikazu, Kuksa Vladimir, Alekseev Andrei, Bronson J Darin, Zhang Houbin, Zhu Li, Sun Wenyu, Saperstein David A, Rieke Fred, Baehr Wolfgang, Palczewski Krzysztof
Abstract excerpt
The retinoid cycle is a recycling system that replenishes the 11-cis-retinal chromophore of rhodopsin and cone pigments. Photoreceptor-specific retinol dehydrogenase (prRDH) catalyzes reduction of all-trans-retinal to all-trans-retinol and is thought to be a key enzyme in the retinoid cycle. We disrupted mouse prRDH (human gene symbol RDH8) gene expression by targeted recombination and generated a homozygous...
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