Retinal degeneration caused by dominant rhodopsin mutations in Drosophila.

Abstract excerpt

Dominant mutations of the Drosophila ninaE-encoded rhodopsin are described that reduce the expression of wild-type rhodopsin and cause a slow, age-dependent form of retinal degeneration. A posttranslational event subsequent to the requirement for the ninaA-encoded cyclophilin is disrupted by the dominant mutations. Most of these dominant mutations are missense mutations that affect the physical properties of one...

Topics

• Aging
• Alleles
• Amino Acid Sequence
• Animals
• Drosophila
• Electroretinography
• Gene Deletion
• Gene Expression
• Genes, Dominant
• Genes, Insect
• Genotype
• Molecular Sequence Data