ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2009
Involvement of all-trans-retinal in acute light-induced retinopathy of mice.
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- Therapeutic Potential of Partial Retinoid Agonists against Vertebrate Rhodopsin Misfolding Disorders.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Ferrostatin-1, a ferroptosis inhibitor, mitigates all-trans-retinal-induced retinal pigment epithelium degeneration in mice.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Small-Molecule Ligands of Rhodopsin and Their Therapeutic Potential in Retina Degeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- The cone visual cycle and its disorders: insights from zebrafish.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Review
- Rodent Models of Retinal Degeneration: From Purified Cells in Culture to Living Animals.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2024Review
- Novel Therapeutic Effects ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mutant mice with rod-specific VPS35 deletion exhibit retinal α-synuclein pathology-associated degeneration.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Synthesis and Biological Analysis of Iso-dimethyltryptamines in a Model of Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2024Article
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- Lipofuscin, Its Origin, Properties, and Contribution to Retinal Fluorescence as a Potential Biomarker of Oxidative Damage to the Retina.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Development of novel cytoprotective small compounds inhibiting mitochondria-dependent cell death.iScience · 2023Article
- Discovery of Nonretinoid Inhibitors of CRBP1: Structural and Dynamic Insights for Ligand-Binding Mechanisms.ACS chemical biology · 2023Article
- Highly sensitive visual restoration and protection via ectopic expression of chimeric rhodopsin in mice.iScience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Exposure to bright light can cause visual dysfunction and retinal photoreceptor damage in humans and experimental animals, but the mechanism(s) remain unclear. We investigated whether the retinoid cycle (i.e. the series of biochemical reactions required for vision through continuous generation of 11-cis-retinal and clearance of all-trans-retinal, respectively) might be involved. Previously, we reported that mice lacking two enzymes responsible for clearing all-trans-retinal, namely photoreceptor-specific ABCA4 (ATP-binding cassette transporter 4) and RDH8 (retinol dehydrogenase 8), manifested retinal abnormalities exacerbated by light and associated with accumulation of diretinoid-pyridinium-ethanolamine (A2E), a condensation product of all-trans-retinal and a surrogate marker for toxic retinoids. Now we show that these mice develop an acute, light-induced retinopathy. However, cross-breeding these animals with lecithin:retinol acyltransferase knock-out mice lacking retinoids within the eye produced progeny that did not exhibit such light-induced retinopathy until gavaged with the artificial chromophore, 9-cis-retinal. No significant ocular accumulation of A2E occurred under these conditions. These results indicate that this acute light-induced retinopathy requires the presence of free all-trans-retinal and not, as generally believed, A2E or other retinoid condensation products. Evidence is presented that the mechanism of toxicity may include plasma membrane permeability and mitochondrial poisoning that lead to caspase activation and mitochondria-associated cell death. These findings further understanding of the mechanisms involved in light-induced retinal degeneration.
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