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Gene therapy, regulatory mechanisms, and protein function in vision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

James F. McGinnis*
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024. ianwjfm@mvs.oac.ucla.edu

Abstract

Hereditary retinal degeneration due to mutations in visual genes may be amenable to therapeutic interventions that modulate, either positively or negatively, the amount of protein product. Some of the proteins involved in phototransduction are rapidly moved by a lightdependent mechanism between the inner segment and the outer segment in rod photoreceptor cells, and this phenomenon is important in phototransduction.

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