Cyclic metabolism of photoreceptor cells.
Cyclic metabolism of photoreceptor cells.
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感光细胞的循环代谢。
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
S. Basinger
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作者:
Joe G. Hollyfield;S. Basinger
iis issue of INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE contains three papers dealing with the cyclic nature of photoreceptor cell metabolism.' 9i 26 This field of investigation represents one of the most active areas of vision research today. The speed and range of studies on photoreceptors and their supportive tissue, the pigment epithelium, have accelerated to the degree that more new information on the control mechanisms of outer segment turnover has been obtained within the last 2 years than had formerly been obtained in a decade. Any chronology of this line of investigation must begin with a reference to the early ultrastructural studies of the human pigment epithelium by Bairati and Orzalesi. These authors were the first to interpret correctly the lamellar inclusion bodies within this tissue, now termed phagosomes, as having originally been a part of the photoreceptor outer segments. They further suggested that the detachment and phagocytosis of this material from the outer segment tip should be balanced by the addition of newly formed membrane material to the outer segment base. This set the stage for the classic autoradiographic studies of Young and Young and Droz, which firmly established that the outer segment membranes of rod photoreceptors are renewed throughout life. When animals were injected with radioactive amino acids to label newly synthesized protein, the first site of incorporation was within the photoreceptor inner segment as had been observed by Droz earlier. Much of this newly synthesized protein was then transported to the outer segment base where it was used to form a band of radioactive outer segment membrane discs. As this process of membrane addition continued, the radioactive band was displaced along the length of the outer segment to the tip where it was shed as a packet of membrane discs.' 28 These membrane fragments were then phagocytized and degraded by the pigment epithelium.' 20 The experiments of Hall et al. further demonstrated that much of the new membrane protein was the rod visual pigment rhodopsin. This pattern of rod outer segment renewal has been observed in every vertebrate examined. Throughout these autoradiographic studies, cone outer segments were observed to become diffusely labeled, but a discrete band of labeled discs was never formed. This led Young to suggest that cone outer segments were renewed by the replacement of individual molecules throughout the outer segment rather than by the rod system of membrane assembly at the base and loss of membrane packets from the tip. However, the morphological studies of cone photoreceptors in the squirrel retina by Anderson, Fisher, and Steinberg" and in the human retina by Steinberg, Wood, and Hogan21