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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Elementary response triggered by transducin in retinal rods.

Wendy W S Yue, Daniel Silverman, Xiaozhi Ren, Rikard Frederiksen, Kazumi Sakai, Takahiro Yamashita, Yoshinori Shichida, M Carter Cornwall, Jeannie Chen, King-Wai Yau

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The physiology of dark adaptation: Progress and future directions.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025
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  3. Dark continuous noise from visual pigment as a major mechanism underlying rod-cone difference in light sensitivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  4. The mechanism of genetically inherited night blindness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  5. Dark continuous noise from mutant G90D-rhodopsin predominantly underlies congenital stationary night blindness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  10. Low signaling efficiency from receptor to effector in olfactory transduction: A quantified ligand-triggered GPCR pathway.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  13. New focus on regulation of the rod photoreceptor phosphodiesterase.Current opinion in structural biology · 2021
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  17. Dark noise and retinal degeneration from D190N-rhodopsin.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Wendy W S YueSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Daniel SilvermanSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Xiaozhi RenSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Rikard FrederiksenDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118.
Kazumi SakaiDepartment of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Takahiro YamashitaDepartment of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Yoshinori ShichidaDepartment of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
M Carter CornwallDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118.
Jeannie ChenZilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.ORCID 0000-0002-7904-9629
King-Wai YauSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205; kwyau@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · USBoston University · USKyoto University · JPRitsumeikan University · JPUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

BIOCHEMISTRY, CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PROGRAMT32GM007445 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GREEN, RACHEL · 1985 to 2021
$24.1M
Phototransduction in health and diseaseR01EY012155 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Jeannie Chen · 1998 to 2026
$11.8M
VISUAL TRANSDUCTION IN RETINAL PHOTORECEPTORSR01EY006837 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KING-WAI YAU · 1987 to 2026
$8.5M
Spectral & Metabolic Basis of Visual ResponsesR01EY001157 · NEI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI CORNWALL, M CARTER · 1985 to 2020
$8.3M
Ophthalmic Therapeutics Engineering CoreP30EY029220 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Sun Young Lee · 2018 to 2026
$6.5M
Visual Science Training ProgramT32EY007143 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Laura Ensign, JEREMY NATHANS · 1995 to 2026
$6.2M
VISUAL TRANSDUCTION IN RETINAL PHOTORECEPTORSR37EY006837 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI YAU, KING-WAI · 1992 to 2002
$822k
SPECIFICITY OF LOCAL CIRCUITS IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEXF32EY006837 · NEI · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI YABUTA KIDA, NEUSA H · 1998 to 1999
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Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNEI NIH HHS F32 EY006837NEI NIH HHS P30 EY029220NEI NIH HHS R01 EY001157NEI NIH HHS R01 EY006837NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012155NEI NIH HHS R37 EY006837NEI NIH HHS T32 EY007143NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007445
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling is crucial for many physiological processes. A signature of such pathways is high amplification, a concept originating from retinal rod phototransduction, whereby one photoactivated rhodopsin molecule (Rho*) was long reported to activate several hundred transducins (G

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsAnimalsCyclic GMPGTP-Binding Protein alpha SubunitsLight Signal TransductionMice, TransgenicMutationPhosphoric Diester HydrolasesPhotonsRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsRhodopsinTransducinCyclic GMPGnat1 protein, mouseGTP-Binding Protein alpha SubunitsPhosphoric Diester HydrolasesRhodopsinTransducinapo-opsinG protein-coupled receptorrhodopsinrod phototransductionsignal amplification

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PMID30796193
PMCPMC6421417
OpenAlexW2916588887

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