Evolution of vertebrate rod and cone phototransduction genes

D Larhammar, K Nordström… - … Transactions of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Vertebrate cones and rods in several cases use separate but related components for their
signal transduction (opsins, G-proteins, ion channels, etc.). Some of these proteins are also …

Photoreceptor specific guanylate cyclases in vertebrate phototransduction

KW Koch, T Duda, RK Sharma - Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 2002 - Springer
Two membrane bound guanylate cyclases are expressed in vertebrate photoreceptor cells.
They serve a key function in photoreceptor physiology as they synthesize the intracellular …

Evolution of the membrane guanylate cyclase transduction system

RK Sharma - Guanylate Cyclase, 2002 - Springer
Almost four decades of research in the field of membrane guanylate cyclases is discussed in
this review. Primarily, it focuses on the chronological development of the field, recognizes …

Novel functions of photoreceptor guanylate cyclases revealed by targeted deletion

S Karan, JM Frederick, W Baehr - Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 2010 - Springer
Targeted deletion of membrane guanylate cyclases (GCs) has yielded new information
concerning their function. Here, we summarize briefly recent results of laboratory generated …

Membrane guanylate cyclase is a beautiful signal transduction machine: overview

RK Sharma - Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 2010 - Springer
This article is a sequel to the four earlier comprehensive reviews which covered the field of
membrane guanylate cyclase from its origin to the year 2002 (Sharma in Mol Cell Biochem …

Structural, biochemical, and functional characterization of the calcium sensor neurocalcin δ in the inner retinal neurons and its linkage with the rod outer segment …

A Krishnan, V Venkataraman, E Fik-Rymarkiewicz… - Biochemistry, 2004 - ACS Publications
This study documents the detailed biochemical, structural, and functional identity of a novel
Ca2+-modulated membrane guanylate cyclase transduction system in the inner retinal …

Membrane guanylate cyclase, a multimodal transduction machine: history, present, and future directions

RK Sharma, T Duda - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
A sequel to these authors' earlier comprehensive reviews which covered the field of
mammalian membrane guanylate cyclase (MGC) from its origin to the year 2010, this article …

Integrative signaling networks of membrane guanylate cyclases: biochemistry and physiology

RK Sharma, T Duda, CL Makino - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
This monograph presents a historical perspective of cornerstone developments on the
biochemistry and physiology of mammalian membrane guanylate cyclases (MGCs) …

Neurocalcin δ Modulation of ROS-GC1, a New Model of Ca2+ Signaling

V Venkataraman, T Duda, S Ravichandran… - Biochemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
ROS-GC1 membrane guanylate cyclase is a Ca2+ bimodal signal transduction switch. It is
turned “off” by a rise in free Ca2+ from nanomolar to the semicromolar range in the …

The calcium-sensor guanylate cyclase activating protein type 2 specific site in rod outer segment membrane guanylate cyclase type 1

T Duda, E Fik-Rymarkiewicz, V Venkataraman… - Biochemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
The rod outer segment membrane guanylate cyclase type 1 (ROS-GC1), originally identified
in the photoreceptor outer segments, is a member of the subfamily of Ca2+-modulated …