Rhodopsin Kinase Activity in the Mammalian Pineal Gland and Other Tissues
- 12 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 226 (4671) , 182-184
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6091271
Abstract
Rhodopsin kinase, an enzyme involved in photochemical transduction in the retina, has been found in the mammalian pineal gland in amounts equal to those in the retina; other tissues had 7 percent of this amount, or less. This finding suggests that, in mammals, rhodopsin kinase functions in the pineal gland and other tissues to phosphorylate rhodopsin-like integral membrane receptors and is thereby involved in signal transduction.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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