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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol 28, 613-617, Copyright © 1987 by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

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Rhodopsin, vitamin A, and interstitial retinol-binding protein in the rd chicken [published erratum appears in Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1987 Jun;28(6):920]

CD Bridges, RA Alvarez, SL Fong, GI Liou and RJ Ulshafer

In order to determine whether blindness in the rd strain of Rhode Island Red chickens is due to a defect in the vitamin A (visual) cycle, spectroscopy, high performance liquid chromatography, and immunochemical techniques were used to compare the amounts of rhodopsin, interstitial retinol-binding protein, and vitamin A compounds in the dark-adapted eyes of homozygous rd and heterozygous carriers. In both groups of chickens, (up to 6 weeks post-hatching) the distribution of stored vitamin A differed from other vertebrates (mammals, amphibians, fish) in that more than half of the retinyl palmitate/stearate occurred in the neurosensory retina. The 11-cis isomer accounted for nearly 100% of the retinyl palmitate/stearate in the neurosensory retinas of both groups. In the pigmented layers (pigment epithelium and choroid) the 11-cis isomer amounted to 70.1 +/- 4.2% in the carrier, and 65.1 +/- 2.9% in the rd birds. With respect to their content of rhodopsin, IRBP, retinyl palmitate/stearate and unesterified retinol, (both 11-cis and all-trans isomers) no significant difference could be demonstrated between the eyes of rd and carrier chickens (3 days and 28 days post-hatching). These results therefore demonstrate that the ocular tissues of rd chickens do not lack IRBP, the putative extracellular transport protein for vitamin A, that these tissues synthesize and store the 11-cis isomer of vitamin A, and that the 11-cis isomer is used to form rhodopsin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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