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Visual phototransduction is the sensory transduction process of the visual system by which light is detected by photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) in the vertebrate retina.A photon is absorbed by a retinal chromophore (each bound to an opsin), which initiates a signal cascade through several intermediate cells, then through the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) comprising the optic nerve.
The visual cycle is a process in the retina that replenishes the molecule retinal for its use in vision.Retinal is the chromophore of most visual opsins, meaning it captures the photons to begin the phototransduction cascade.
A photoreceptor cell is a specialized type of neuroepithelial cell found in the retina that is capable of visual phototransduction.The great biological importance of photoreceptors is that they convert light (visible electromagnetic radiation) into signals that can stimulate biological processes.
The entire process by which light initiates a sensory response is called visual phototransduction. Activation of a single unit of rhodopsin, the photosensitive pigment in rods, can lead to a large reaction in the cell because the signal is amplified.
The visual cycle is a circular enzymatic pathway, which is the front-end of phototransduction. It regenerates 11-cis-retinal. For example, the visual cycle of mammalian rod cells is as follows: all-trans-retinyl ester + H 2 O → 11-cis-retinol + fatty acid; RPE65 isomerohydrolases; [30]
The opsin is only activated when 11-cis-retinal absorbs a photon of light and isomerizes to all-trans-retinal, [16] [17] the receptor activating form, [18] [19] causing conformal changes in the opsin, [18] which activate a phototransduction cascade. [20] Thus, a chemoreceptor is converted to a light or photo(n)receptor. [21]
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This can be explained by the activation of PDE by free GDP-bound T α. PDE γ subunit affinity for GDP-bound T α, however, seems to be about 100-fold smaller than for GTP-bound T α. [17] The mechanism by which GDP-bound T α activates PDE remains unknown however, it is speculated to be similar to the activation of PDE by GTP-bound T α. [16]