Selected Publications

Leskov, I.B., Klenchin V.A., Handy, J.W., Whitlock, G.G., Govardovskii, V.I., Bownds, M.D., Lamb, T.D., Pugh, E.N., Arshavsky, V.Y. The gain of rod phototransduction: reconciliation of biochemical and electrophysiological measurements. Neuron (2000), 27, 525-537. [PDF 517KB]

Sokolov, M., Lyubarsky, A.L., Strissel, K.J., Savchenko, A.B., Govardovskii, V.I., Pugh, E.N. Jr., Arshavsky, V.Y. Massive light-driven translocation of transducin between the two major compartments of rod cells: a novel mechanism of light adaptation. Neuron (2002) 33, 95-106. [PDF 446KB]

Martemyanov, K.A., Hopp, J.A., Arshavsky, V.Y. Specificity of G protein – RGS protein recognition is regulated by affinity adapters. Neuron (2003) 38, 857-862. [PDF 202KB]

Martemyanov, K.A., Yoo, P.J., Skiba, N.P., Arshavsky, V.Y. R7BP - a novel neuronal protein interacting with RGS proteins of the R7 family. J. Biol. Chem. (2005), 280, 5133-5136. [PDF 198KB]

Strissel, K.J., Sokolov, M., Trieu, L.H., Arshavsky, V.Y. Arrestin translocation is induced at a critical threshold of visual signaling and is superstoichiometric to bleached Rhodopsin. J. Neurosci. (2006), 26, 1146-1153. [PDF 243KB]

Lobanova, E.S., Finkelstein, S., Song, H., Tsang, S.H., Chen, C.-K., Sokolov, M., Skiba, N.P. and Arshavsky, V.Y. Transducin translocation in rods is triggered by saturation of the GTPase activating complex. J. Neurosci. (2007) 27, 1151-1160. [PDF 417KB]

Baker, S.A., Haeri, M., Yoo, P., Gospe, S.M. 3rd, Skiba, N.P., Knox, B.E., Arshavsky, V.Y. The outer segment serves as a default destination for the trafficking of membrane proteins in photoreceptors. J Cell Biol. (2008) 183 (3), 485-98. [PDF 3.5MB]

Selected Reviews

Arshavsky, V.Y., Lamb, T.D., Pugh, E.N., Jr. G proteins and phototransduction. Ann. Rev. Physiol., (2002) 64, 153-187. [PDF 501KB]

Arshavsky, V.Y. Like night and day: rods and cones have different pigment regeneration pathways. Neuron (2002) 36, 1-3. [PDF 150KB]

Burns, M.E., Arshavsky, V.Y. Beyond counting photons: trials and trends in vertebrate visual transduction. Neuron (2005) 48, 387-401.
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Calvert, P.D., Strissel, K.J., Schiesser, W.E., Pugh, E.N., Jr., Arshavsky, V.Y. Light-driven translocation of signaling proteins in vertebrate photoreceptors. Trends Cell Biol. (2006) 16, 560-568. [PDF 1397KB]

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