- PII
- 10.31857/S0235009224010032-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S0235009224010032
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume 38 / Issue number 1
- Pages
- 45-51
- Abstract
- Retinal rods, the photoreceptors responsible for twilight vision, are capable of adapting to a wide range of light levels. The molecular mechanisms of light adaptation have been well studied, but an interesting question is what changes occur in the phototransduction cascade after the adaptive light stimuli are eliminated. Previously, we showed the phenomenon of adaptation memory in amphibian rods: after background illumination photoreceptor sensitivity to light remained reduced for several minutes, while the dark current recovered within 20—30 s. This suggests the existence of additional, as yet unknown, regulatory mechanisms of the phototransduction cascade that act after the adaptive effect of light. In search of specific mechanisms that could explain the effect of adaptation memory, we performed electrophysiological experiments on isolated frog rods to evaluate the basal activity of the effector enzyme of the phototransduction cascade, the phosphodiesterase type 6, in the dark and after saturating background illumination. It was found that the post-adaptation state of rods was characterized by increased basal phosphodiesterase activity, which gradually decreased to the dark level within tens of seconds after turning off the adaptive illumination. These results also suggest that the components of the phototransduction cascade may undergo some unstudied changes after light adaptation.
- Keywords
- каскад фототрансдукции палочки адаптационная память фосфодиэстераза 6
- Date of publication
- 14.09.2025
- Year of publication
- 2025
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- 0
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- 4
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