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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4996
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-4-11
pubmed:abstractText
Vertebrate retinal photoreceptors recover from photoexcitation-induced hydrolysis of guanosine 3', 5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) by resynthesizing cyclic GMP, which reopens cation channels that have been closed by light. Activation of guanylate cyclase by light-induced depletion of cytosolic calcium is a key event in this recovery process. This cyclase has now been shown to be regulated by a 23-kilodalton calcium binding protein. The protein is present in both rod and cone photoreceptors and was named recoverin because it promotes recovery of the dark state. The amino acid sequence of recoverin exhibits three potential calcium binding sites (EF hands). That recoverin binds calcium was confirmed with calcium-45 and by observing calcium-induced changes in its tryptophan fluorescence. Recoverin activated guanylate cyclase when free calcium was lowered from 450 to 40 nM, an effect that was blocked by an antibody to recoverin. Thus, guanylate cyclase in retinal rods is stimulated during recovery by the calcium-free form of recoverin. A comparison of recoverin with other calcium binding proteins reveals that it may represent, along with the protein visinin, a family of proteins that are regulated by submicromolar calcium concentrations.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
251
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
915-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Calcium-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Eye Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Guanylate Cyclase, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Hippocalcin, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Lipoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Organ Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Photoreceptor Cells, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Recoverin, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Retina, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Rod Cell Outer Segment, pubmed-meshheading:1672047-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Recoverin: a calcium sensitive activator of retinal rod guanylate cyclase.
pubmed:affiliation
Belozersky Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow State University, USSR.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.