PUBLICATION
Cone arrestin confers cone vision of high temporal resolution in zebrafish larvae
- Authors
- Renninger, S.L., Gesemann, M., and Neuhauss, S.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-110214-14
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- The European journal of neuroscience 33(4): 658-667 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Neuhauss, Stephan, Renninger, Sabine
- Keywords
- arrestin, cone photoreceptor, phototransduction, retina, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Arrestin/classification
- Arrestin/genetics
- Arrestin/metabolism*
- Electroretinography
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Larva/anatomy & histology
- Larva/physiology
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells/cytology
- Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells/physiology*
- Vision, Ocular/physiology*
- Zebrafish*/anatomy & histology
- Zebrafish*/embryology
- Zebrafish*/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/classification
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 21299656 Full text @ Eur. J. Neurosci.
Citation
Renninger, S.L., Gesemann, M., and Neuhauss, S.C. (2011) Cone arrestin confers cone vision of high temporal resolution in zebrafish larvae. The European journal of neuroscience. 33(4):658-667.
Abstract
Vision of high temporal resolution depends on careful regulation of photoresponse kinetics, beginning with the lifetime of activated photopigment. The activity of rhodopsin is quenched by high-affinity binding of arrestin to photoexcited phosphorylated photopigment, which effectively terminates the visual transduction cascade. This regulation mechanism is well established for rod photoreceptors, yet its role for cone vision is still controversial. In this study we therefore analyzed arrestin function in the cone-dominated vision of larval zebrafish. For both rod (arrS
) and cone (arr3
) arrestin we isolated two paralogs, each expressed in the respective subset of photoreceptors. Labeling with paralog-specific antibodies revealed subfunctionalized expression of Arr3a in M- and L-cones, and Arr3b in S- and UV-cones. The inactivation of arr3a by morpholino knockdown technology resulted in a severe delay in photoresponse recovery which, under bright light conditions, was rate-limiting. Comparison to opsin phosphorylation-deficient animals confirmed the role of cone arrestin in late cone response recovery. Arr3a activity partially overlapped with the function of the cone-specific kinase Grk7a involved in initial response recovery. Behavioral measurements further revealed Arr3a deficiency to be sufficient to reduce temporal contrast sensitivity, providing evidence for the importance of arrestin in cone vision of high temporal resolution.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping