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typically retinal. When
bound to retinal,
opsins become retinylidene proteins, but are
usually still called opsins regardless. Most prominently, they are...
- are
often abbreviated to
opsin, as they were the
first opsins discovered and are
still the most
widely studied opsins.
Opsin refers strictly to the apoprotein...
- UVS
opsins vary from 347-383 nm, and LWS
opsins from 500-570 nm. However, some fish that use
alternative chromop****s can
extend their LWS
opsin sensitivity...
- and so
opsins have been
called retinylidene proteins.
Opsins are
prototypical G protein-coupled
receptors (GPCRs).
Cattle rhodopsin, the
opsin of the...
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binding lysine is
conserved in
almost all
opsins, only a few
opsins having lost it
during evolution.
Opsins without the
lysine are not
light sensitive...
-
retinal proteins called opsins and
encoded by the gene Opn4. In the
mammalian retina,
there are two
additional categories of
opsins, both
involved in the...
- for both the LWS and MWS
opsins (and
therefore a
carrier for both
protanomaly and deuteranomaly)
would express five
opsins of
different spectral sensitivity...
- c-
opsins, and (bilaterian)
invertebrates have
rhabdomeric cells in the eye with r-
opsins. However, some
ganglion cells of
vertebrates express r-
opsins,...
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possessing anomalous L-
opsins for long-wavelength-sensitive cone cells. Deutan: (6% of males): lacking, or
possessing anomalous M-
opsins for medium-wavelength-sensitive...
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Drosophila opsin binds the
carotenoid chromop**** 11-cis-3-hydroxyretinal via a lysine. This
lysine is
conserved in
almost all
opsins, only a few
opsins have...
