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Animal opsins are G-protein-coupled
receptors and a
group of
proteins made light-sensitive via a chromop****,
typically retinal. When
bound to retinal...
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Vertebrate visual opsins are a
subclass of
ciliary opsins and
mediate vision in vertebrates. They
include the
opsins in
human rod and cone cells. They...
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wavelengths of
opsins with
those of
typical humans (S-
opsin at 420 nm and L-
opsin at 560 nm). Most
mammals have
retained only two
opsin classes (LWS and...
- an apoprotein, he
called it
opsin,
which today would be
described more
narrowly as apo-rhodopsin. Today, the term
opsin refers more
broadly to the class...
- It is
caused by
variation in the
functionality of the red and/or
green opsin proteins,
which are the
photosensitive pigment in the cone
cells of the...
- humans). In
addition to the S-
opsin,
catarrhine primates have two
adjacent opsin genes on the X chromosome: M-
opsin (middle wave sensitive, encoded...
- retinaldehyde) is a
polyene chromop****. Retinal,
bound to
proteins called opsins, is the
chemical basis of
visual phototransduction, the light-detection...
- that
encode the L-
opsin or M-
opsin.
These alleles often have a
different spectral sensitivity, so if the
carrier expresses both
opsin alleles, they may...
- retina. A
photon is
absorbed by a
retinal chromop**** (each
bound to an
opsin),
which initiates a
signal cascade through several intermediate cells, then...
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retinal for its use in vision.
Retinal is the chromop**** of most
visual opsins,
meaning it
captures the
photons to
begin the
phototransduction cascade...
