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- expressed in cone cells are called cone opsins. The cone opsins are called photopsins when unbound to retinal and iodopsins when bound to retinal. Cone opsins...
- of photopsins, the photopigments that 'catch' photons and thereby convert light into chemical signals. A typical human has three distinct photopsins: S-...
- respectively. Because humans usually have three kinds of cones with different photopsins, which have different response curves and thus respond to variation in...
- to form new, functional visual pigment (retinylidene protein), namely photopsin or rhodopsin. Visual phototransduction in invertebrates like the fruit...
- opsins, both involved in the formation of visual images: rhodopsin and photopsin (types I, II, and III) in the rod and cone photoreceptor cells, respectively...
- molecules of photoreceptor protein which is a combination of the protein photopsin in color vision cells, rhodopsin in night vision cells, and retinal (a...
- related to the functionality of cone cells, and often to the expression of photopsins, the photopigments that 'catch' photons and thereby convert light into...
- opsin genes are only 40% homologous (similar) to OPN1SW (encoding the SWS photopsin and located on chromosome 7) and "RHO" (encoding rhodopsin, and located...
- applied to opsin-type photoreceptor proteins, specifically rhodopsin and photopsins, the photoreceptor proteins in the retinal rods and cones of vertebrates...
- dim light night vision in retinal rod cells couples to Gt1, and color photopsins in color vision in retinal cone cells couple to Gt2, respectively. Gt3/Gustducin...