Phototransduction Motifs and Variations

King Wai Yau; Roger C. Hardie

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.09.029

Phototransduction Motifs and Variations

King Wai Yau, Roger C. Hardie

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Seeing begins in the photoreceptors, where light is absorbed and signaled to the nervous system. Throughout the animal kingdom, photoreceptors are diverse in design and purpose. Nonetheless, phototransduction-the mechanism by which absorbed photons are converted into an electrical response-is highly conserved and based almost exclusively on a single class of photoproteins, the opsins. In this Review, we survey the G protein-coupled signaling cascades downstream from opsins in photoreceptors across vertebrate and invertebrate species, noting their similarities as well as differences.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	246-264
Number of pages	19
Journal	Cell
Volume	139
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.09.029
State	Published - Oct 16 2009

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