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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 1999, 19(14):5889-5897
Disruption of a Retinal Guanylyl Cyclase Gene Leads to
Cone-Specific Dystrophy and Paradoxical Rod Behavior
Ruey-Bing
Yang2,
Susan
W.
Robinson1,
Wei-Hong
Xiong5,
King-Wai
Yau5,
David G.
Birch3, 4, and
David L.
Garbers1, 2
1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of
2 Pharmacology and 3 Ophthalmology, University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235-9050, 4 Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, Texas 75231, and 5 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of
Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,
Maryland 21205
One of two orphan photoreceptor guanylyl cyclases that are highly
conserved from fish to mammals, GC-E (or retGC1) was eliminated by gene
disruption. Expression of the second retinal cyclase (GC-F) as well as
the numbers and morphology of rods remained unchanged in GC-E null
mice. However, rods isolated from such mice, despite having a normal
dark current, recovered from a light flash markedly faster.
Unexpectedly, the a- and b-waves of electroretinograms (ERG) from
dark-adapted null mice were suppressed markedly. Cones, initially present in normal numbers in the retina, disappeared by 5 weeks, based on ERG and histology. Thus, the GC-E-deficient mouse
defines a model for cone dystrophy, but it also demonstrates that
morphologically normal rods display paradoxical behavior in their
responses to light.
Key words:
guanylyl cyclases; retina; photoreceptors; gene
disruption; cone dystrophy; mice; cyclic GMP; guanylyl cyclase-E
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/19145889-09$05.00/0
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