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Tommasini D, Yoshimatsu T, Puthussery T, Baden T, Shekhar K. Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolution of vertebrate photoreceptor types. (2025) Current Biology. May 19;35(10):2228-2239.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.060. PMID: 40250432
Xu Z, Kunala K, Murphy P, Patak L, Puthussery T, McGregor J. Foveal Retinal Ganglion Cells Develop Altered Calcium Dynamics Weeks After Photoreceptor Ablation. (2024) Ophthalmology Science. Mar 22;4(5):100520. doi: 10.1016/j.xops.2024.100520. eCollection 2024 Sep-Oct.PMID: 38881601
Kim MH, Strazza P Jr, Puthussery T, Gross OP, Taylor WR, von Gersdorff H. (2023) Functional maturation of the rod bipolar to AII-amacrine cell ribbon synapse in the mouse retina. Cell Reports Nov 28;42(11):113440. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113440. PMID: 37976158.
Wang AYM, Kulkarni MM, McLaughlin AJ, Gayet J, Smith BE, Hauptschein M, McHugh CF, Yao YY, Puthussery T. (2023) An ON-type direction-selective ganglion cell in primate retina. Nature. Nov;623(7986):381-386. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06659-4. PMID: 37880369
Stincic T, Gayet-Primo, Taylor WR, Puthussery T (2023) TARPγ2 is required for normal AMPA receptor density and function in direction-selective circuits of the mammalian retina. eNeuro, 10(8):ENEURO.0158-23.2023.
Xu Z, Kunala K, Murphy P, Puthussery T, McGregor J (2023) Foveal RGCs develop abnormal calcium dynamics weeks after photoreceptor ablation. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.30.542908
Percival K, Gayet J, Khanjian R, Taylor R, Puthussery T (2022) Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors on AII amacrine cells mediate sustained signaling in the On-pathway of the primate retina. Cell Reports. Oct 11;41(2):111484. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111484.
McGregor JE, Kunala K, Xu Z, Murphy PJ, Godat T, Strazzeri JM, Bateman BA, Fischer WS, Parkins K, Chu CJ, Puthussery T, Williams DR, Merigan WH. (2021) Optogenetic therapy restores retinal activity in primate for at least a year following photoreceptor ablation. Molecular Therapy. Sep 18:S1525-0016(21)00469-X. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2021.09.014.
McLaughlin AJ, Percival KA, Gayet-Primo J, Puthussery T. (2021) Glycinergic inhibition targets specific Off cone bipolar cells in primate retina. eNeuro Feb 24;8(1):ENEURO.0432-20.2020. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0432-20.2020.
Peterson SM*, McGill TJ*, Puthussery T, Stoddard J, Renner L, Lewis AD, Colgin LMA, Gayet J, Wang X, Prongay K, Cullin C, Dozier B, Ferguson B, Neuringer M. (2019) Bardet-Biedl Syndrome in Rhesus Macaques: A Nonhuman Primate Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa. Experimental Eye Research Dec;189:107825. *joint first author. See related commentary.
Kerov V, Laird J, Joiner M, Knecht S, Soh D, Hagen J, Gardner S, Gutierrez W, Yoshimatsu T, Bhattarai S, Puthussery T, Artemyev N, Drack A, Wong R, Baker S, Lee A. (2019) α2δ−4 is required for the molecular and structural organization of rod and cone photoreceptor synapses. Journal of Neuroscience 38(27):6145-6160.
Gayet-Primo J, Yaeger DB, Khanjian RA, Puthussery T. (2018) Heteromeric Kv2/Kv8.2 channels mediate delayed rectifier potassium currents in primate photoreceptors. Journal of Neuroscience 38(14):3414-3427 *F1000 Prime recommended article, *Cover Image
Gayet-Primo J, Puthussery T. (2015) Alterations in Kainate Receptor and TRPM1 Localization in Bipolar Cells after Retinal Photoreceptor Degeneration. Front Cell Neurosci 2015. 9:486. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00486. eCollection.
Balakrishnan V, Puthussery T, Kim MH, Taylor WR, von Gersdorff H. (2015) Synaptic vesicle exocytosis at the dendritic lobules of an inhibitory interneuron in the mammalian retina. Neuron. 87(3):563-575.
*For Commentary see: Van Hook, MJ, Thoreson, WB. (2015) Unconventional Transmission at Conventional Synapses of an Inhibitory Interneuron. Neuron 87(3):463-465.
Puthussery T, Percival KA, Venkataramani S, Gayet-Primo J, Grünert U. Taylor, W.R. (2014) Kainate receptors mediate synaptic input to transient and sustained OFF visual pathways in primate retina. Journal of Neuroscience 34(22):7611-21.
Puthussery T, Venkataramani S, Gayet-Primo J, Smith RG, Taylor WR. (2013) Nav1.1 channels in axon initial segments of bipolar cells augment input to magnocellular visual pathways in the primate retina. Journal of Neuroscience 33(41):16045-59. *Feature Article, *Cover Image
*For Commentaries see: Baden T., Euler, T. Early vision: where (some of) the magic happens. Curr Biol. 23; R1096-8 and “This Week in the Journal”, Journal of Neuroscience 2013. 33(41).
Buldyrev I, Puthussery T, Taylor WR. (2012) Synaptic pathways that shape the excitatory drive in an OFF retinal ganglion cell. J Neurophysiol 107(7):1795-807.
Puthussery T, Gayet-Primo J, Taylor WR, Haverkamp S. (2011) Immunohistochemical identification and synaptic inputs to the diffuse bipolar cell type DB1 in macaque retina. J Comp Neurol 519(18):3640-56. *Cover Image
Puthussery T, Gayet-Primo J, Taylor WR. (2010) Localization of the calcium-binding protein secretagogin in cone bipolar cells of the mammalian retina. J Comp Neurol 518(4):513-25. *Cover Image
Puthussery T, Gayet-Primo J, Pandey S, Duvoisin RM, Taylor WR. (2009) Differential loss and preservation of glutamate receptor function in bipolar cells in the rd10 mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. Eur J Neurosci (8):1533-42.