The duration of photoresponses in vertebrate rods and cones is controlled at the level of GTP hydrolysis by a GTPase accelerating protein (GAP) whose catalytic core is provided by RGS9-1. RGS9-1 is in turn regulated by phosphorylation on serine 475, in a reaction that is dependent on Ca2+. In living mice, the level of phosphorylation at this site is reduced by light. Thus RGS9-1 phosphorylation provides a potential mechanism by which light-regulated changes in intracellular [Ca2+] may feed back on phototransduction through effects on the lifetime of activated G protein and cGMP phosphodiesterase.
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Wensel, T. G. (2002). RGS9-1 phosphorylation and Ca2+. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 514, 125–129. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0121-3_8
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