Affiliation:
1. Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
2. Neuroscience Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
Abstract
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) serve as primary photoceptors by expressing the photopigment, melanopsin, and also as retinal relay neurons for rod and cone signals en route to the brain, in both cases for the purpose of non-image vision as well as aspects of image vision. So far, six subtypes of ipRGCs (M1 through M6) have been characterized. Regarding their phototransduction mechanisms, we have previously found that, unconventionally, rhabdomeric (microvillous) and ciliary signaling motifs co-exist within a given M1-, M2-, and M4-ipRGC, with the first mechanism involving PLCβ4 and TRPC6,7 channels and the second involving cAMP and HCN channels. We have now examined M3-, M5-, and M6-cells and found that each cell likewise uses both signaling pathways for phototransduction, despite differences in the percentage representation by each pathway in a given ipRGC subtype for bright-flash responses (and saturated except for M6-cells). Generally, M3- and M5-cells show responses quite similar in kinetics to M2-responses, and M6-cell responses resemble broadly those of M1-cells although much lower in absolute sensitivity and amplitude. Therefore, similar to rod and cone subtypes in image vision, ipRGC subtypes possess the same phototransduction mechanism(s) even though they do not show microvilli or cilia morphologically.
Funder
HHS | NIH | National Eye Institute
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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