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ArticleBiochemistry2016

Structural Insights into the Drosophila melanogaster Retinol Dehydrogenase, a Member of the Short-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductase Family.

Lukas Hofmann, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Nathan S Alexander, Darwin Babino, Nicole Y Leung, Craig Montell, Surajit Banerjee, Johannes von Lintig, Krzysztof Palczewski

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Article in Biochemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lukas HofmannDepartment of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University , 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Yaroslav TsybovskyDepartment of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University , 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Nathan S AlexanderDepartment of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University , 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Darwin BabinoDepartment of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University , 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Nicole Y LeungNeuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States.
Craig MontellNeuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States.
Surajit BanerjeeDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.
Johannes von LintigDepartment of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University , 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Krzysztof PalczewskiDepartment of Pharmacology and Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University , 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Case Western Reserve University · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · USCornell University · US

Funding

STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF ARRESTINSR01EY009339 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KISER, PHILIP DAVID, PALCZEWSKI, KRZYSZTOF · 1992 to 2025
$16.0M
Overall EvaluationP41GM103403 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI EALICK, STEVEN E · 2012 to 2017
$14.3M
Pharmacological Treatment of Retinal DiseasesR24EY021126 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI PALCZEWSKI, KRZYSZTOF · 2010 to 2014
$12.8M
Unconventional roles for opsinsR01EY008117 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI MONTELL, CRAIG · 1989 to 2022
$8.2M
Carotinoids in VisionR01EY020551 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI VON LINTIG, JOHANNES FRIEDRICH · 2011 to 2024
$4.8M
NUCLEAR RECEPTOR LIGAND TARGETING BY THE FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEINS: IMPLICATIONF31CA165599 · NCI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI DOUD, MARY KATHRYN · 2012 to 2015
$170k
Novel rhodopsin-interacting proteins required for phototransductionF31EY027191 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI LEUNG, NICOLE YISHI · 2016 to 2018
$106k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA165599NEI NIH HHS F31 EY027191NEI NIH HHS R01 EY008117NEI NIH HHS R01 EY009339NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020551NEI NIH HHS R24 EY021126NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103403
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 11-cis-retinylidene chromophore of visual pigments isomerizes upon interaction with a photon, initiating a downstream cascade of signaling events that ultimately lead to visual perception. 11-cis-Retinylidene is regenerated through enzymatic transformations collectively called the visual cycle. The first and rate-limiting enzymatic reaction within this cycle, i.e., the reduction of all-trans-retinal to all-trans-retinol, is catalyzed by retinol dehydrogenases. Here, we determined the structure of Drosophila melanogaster photoreceptor retinol dehydrogenase (PDH) isoform C that belongs to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) family. This is the first reported structure of a SDR that possesses this biologically important activity. Two crystal structures of the same enzyme grown under different conditions revealed a novel conformational change of the NAD

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Alcohol OxidoreductasesAnimalsCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsGenetic Complementation TestHumansModels, MolecularMutationNADOxidoreductasesProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationAlcohol OxidoreductasesDrosophila ProteinsNADOxidoreductasesRDH12 protein, humanretinol dehydrogenase

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PMID27809489
PMCPMC5154250
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