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Opsin vs opsin: new materials for biotechnological applications [PDF]
Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 The need of new diagnostic methods satisfying, as an early detection, a low invasive procedure and a cost-efficient value, is orienting the technological research toward the use of bio-integrated devices, in particular bio-sensors.
Alfinito, E., Reggiani, L.
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Stimulation-Guided AAV Delivery and Longitudinal Assessment of Optogenetic Expression in Rat Motor Nerves [PDF]
Bio-ProtocolOptogenetic stimulation of peripheral motor nerves is a promising technique for modulating neural activity via illumination of light-sensitive ion channels known as opsins. Stimulating muscle activity through this method offers many advantages, such as a
Emma Moravec, Jordan Williams
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Genome Biol EvolAbstract In this study, we explored the diversity and evolution of opsins using meta-omic data from the Tara Oceans and Tara Polar Circle expeditions, one of the largest marine datasets available. By using sequence similarity methods and phylogenetic analyses, we identified opsins across the different metazoan groups.
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Opsin evolution in the Ambulacraria [PDF]
Marine Genomics, 2015 Opsins - G-protein coupled receptors involved in photoreception - have been extensively studied in the animal kingdom. The present work provides new insights into opsin-based photoreception and photoreceptor cell evolution with a first analysis of opsin ...
A. Valero-Gracia +52 more
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Broad-Band Activatable White-Opsin.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Currently, the use of optogenetic sensitization of retinal cells combined with activation/inhibition has the potential to be an alternative to retinal implants that would require electrodes inside every single neuron for high visual resolution.
Subrata Batabyal +4 more
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Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 Abstract Opsins, the protein moieties of animal visual photo-pigments, have emerged as moonlighting proteins with diverse, light-dependent and -independent physiological functions. This raises the need to revise some basic assumptions concerning opsin expression, structure, classification, and evolution.
Roberto Feuda +2 more
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Gene expression patterns of novel visual and non-visual opsin families in immature and mature Japanese eel males [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 This study was carried out to identify and estimate physiological function of a new type of opsin subfamily present in the retina and whole brain tissues of Japanese eel using RNA–Seq transcriptome method.
Jun-Hwan Byun +9 more
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Insects, 2023 Expanding on previous efforts to survey the visual opsin repertoires of the Hemiptera, this study confirms that homologs of the UV- and LW-opsin subfamilies are conserved in all Hemiptera, while the B-opsin subfamily is missing from the Heteroptera and ...
Markus Friedrich
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Current Biology, 2002 What are opsins? Opsins are generally considered members of the superfamily of G-protein coupled receptors. But not all opsins activate a G-protein. Their distinguishing features are a 7 transmembrane α-helical structure, and an ability to bind a vitamin A chromophore, retinaldehyde, using a lysine in the 7th α-helix.
Foster, Russell, Bellingham, James
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Evolution and expression plasticity of opsin genes in a fig pollinator, Ceratosolen solmsi. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Figs and fig pollinators have co-evolved species-specific systems of mutualism. So far, it was unknown how visual opsin genes of pollinators have evolved in the light conditions inside their host figs.
Bo Wang +5 more
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