Animal opsins are G-protein-coupled receptors and a group of proteins made light-sensitive via a chromophore, typically retinal. When bound to retinal, opsins become retinylidene proteins, but …

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2005年6月3日 · Opsins, G-protein-coupled receptors including rhodopsin, are found in animals, and more than a thousand have been identified so far. Most opsins act as pigments that …

2005年6月3日 · The photosensitive molecule rhodopsin and its relatives consist of a protein moiety - an opsin - and a non-protein moiety - the chromophore retinal. Opsins, which are G …

The meaning of OPSIN is any of various colorless proteins that in combination with retinal or a related prosthetic group form a visual pigment (such as rhodopsin) in a reaction reversible by …

Three-dimensional structure of bovine rhodopsin. The seven transmembrane domains are shown in varying colors. The retinal chromophore is shown in red.. Vertebrate visual opsins are a …

Opsins, the protein moieties of animal visual photo-pigments, have emerged as moonlighting proteins with diverse, light-dependent and -independent physiological functions. This raises …

2022年3月2日 · Opsins, the protein moieties of animal visual photo-pigments, have emerged as moonlighting proteins with diverse, light-dependent and -independent physiological functions. …

Opsin is the protein moiety of photopigments that employ retinaldehyde as a chromophore (Spudich et al., 2000). Opsins are G protein-coupled heptahelical transmembrane receptors …

2015年8月26日 · Over the past 10 years, the development and convergence of microbial opsin engineering, modular genetic methods for cell-type targeting and optical strategies for guiding …