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Molecular mechanisms of rhodopsin retinitis pigmentosa and the efficacy of pharmacological rescue.
Journal of molecular biology - 5 Feb 2010
Krebs Mark P, Holden David C, Joshi Parth, Clark Charles L, Lee Andrew H, Kaushal Shalesh
Abstract excerpt
Variants of rhodopsin, a complex of 11-cis retinal and opsin, cause retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative disease of the retina. Trafficking defects due to rhodopsin misfolding have been proposed as the most likely basis of the disease, but other potentially overlapping mechanisms may also apply. Pharmacological therapies for RP must target the major disease mechanism and contend with overlap, if it occurs....
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