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* [http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/education/curriculum/vm8054/eye/CNSPROC.HTM Processing of Visual Signals]
* [http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/education/curriculum/vm8054/eye/CNSPROC.HTM Processing of Visual Signals]
* [http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.php How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision]
* [http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.php How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=2780 GNAT2 guanine nucleotide binding protein (G protein), alpha transducing activity polypeptide 2] : A human protein implicated in visual memory, cognition, and perception of light-induced stimulus from rhodopsin-mediated promoter. (Best known as transducin)
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=2780 GNAT2 guanine nucleotide binding protein (G protein), alpha transducing activity polypeptide 2] : A human protein implicated in visual memory, cognition, and perception of light-induced stimulus from rhodopsin-mediated promoter. (Best known as transducin) - Location (Human): Chromosome 1p13. Check also the OMIM entry [http://omim.org/entry/139340 here].
* http://youtu.be/IP4zsbemW8I : Beta-arrestins primer (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrestin and this [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15845844 paper].)
* http://youtu.be/IP4zsbemW8I : Beta-arrestins primer (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrestin and this [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15845844 paper].)



Revision as of 03:06, 26 March 2013

References on Rhodopsin

Unresolved questions

  • Question 1: In the expression "blind as a bat", is the bat blindness a permanent or temporary phenomenon and how could you assert this is related to cGMP/ATP based phosphorylation of the Rhodopsin kinase?
  • Answer: Temporary! The bat can recover its vision if the GABA receptor is cleaved from cAMP/ATP dependent competitive ligands, thus allowing GPCR based signal transduction to occur normally. [REACTOME]
    • Notice also that the S1PR4 gene is a near-neighboor of the Cannabinoid receptors! (Hint hint)

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