Article
Role of peripherin/rds in vertebrate photoreceptor architecture and inherited retinal degenerations.
International review of cytology - 1 Jan 2006
Goldberg Andrew F X
Abstract excerpt
The vertebrate photoreceptor outer segment (OS) is a highly structured and dynamic organelle specialized to transduce light signals. The elaborate membranous architecture of the OS requires peripherin/rds (P/rds), an integral membrane protein and tetraspanin protein family member. Gene-level defects in P/rds cause a broad variety of late-onset progressive retinal degenerations in humans and dysmorphic...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Humans
- Intermediate Filament Proteins
- Intracellular Membranes
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Proteins
- Mice
- Models, Anatomic
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Sequence Data
