Calcium signalling. Cracking ICRAC in the eye.
Capacitative Ca(2+) entry produces the very rapid light response in Drosophila photoreceptors; studies using this amenable system may help unravel the machinery and mechanisms that underlie this Ca(2+)-entry pathway.
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Laboratory of Molecular Signalling, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.
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Cheek
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D002148:Calmodulin-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004330:Drosophila; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D007301:Insect Hormones / Q000378:metabolism*; D019476:Insect Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000378:metabolism*; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels
D015220:Calcium Channels; D002148:Calmodulin-Binding Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D007301:Insect Hormones; D019476:Insect Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels; C063169:trp protein, Drosophila; C074192:trpl protein, Drosophila; D002118:Calcium