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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. The set of know-why necessary to achieve this goal is wide, from biochemistry to electronics and is summarized in an ...
ALFINITO, ELEONORA, REGGIANI, Lino
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Light and myopia: a focus on the expanding role of non-visual opsins [PDF]

Eye and Vision
Myopia, or near-sightedness, is a growing global concern as its incidence rate continues to dramatically rise. It has been linked to significant ocular morbidity and reduced quality of life.
Kate Gettinger, Kazuo Tsubota, Kazuno Negishi, Toshihide Kurihara   +3 more
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Discovery and design of photocyclic animal opsins: potential application to gene therapy from non-visual opsin research [PDF]

Eye and Vision
Opsins are universal photoreceptive proteins in animals. Rhodopsin is the best-studied opsin and functions as a visual sensor in rod cells of human and mouse retinas.
Takahiro Yamashita
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Dragonfly red opsins share a common tuning mechanism with mammalian red opsins and further enhancement of near-infrared sensitivity [PDF]

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Some animals, such as primates and insects have color vision including sensitivity to red light (red vision). Red vision is basically achieved through opsins sensitive to the red region (red opsins), which independently evolved in different lineages.
Ryu Sato, Akihisa Terakita, Mitsumasa Koyanagi   +2 more
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An Ocean of Opsins. [PDF]

Genome Biol Evol
Abstract 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.
De Vivo G, Pelletier E, Feuda R, D'Aniello S.   +3 more
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Molecular diversity of protostome non-visual opsin arthropsin [PDF]

iScience
Summary: Opsins underlie visual and non-visual photoreceptions in animals. Vertebrate and arthropod visual opsins belong to different opsin groups and convergently show spectral diversity ranging from the UV to the red region for color vision.
Takahiro Yamashita, Kengo Fujii, Chihiro Fujiyabu, Kazumi Sakai, Yasuhiro Shiga   +4 more
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Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning [PDF]

eLife
Animal opsins are G protein-coupled receptors that have evolved to sense light by covalently binding a retinal chromophore via a protonated (positively charged) Schiff base. A negatively charged amino acid in the opsin, acting as a counterion, stabilizes
Yusuke Sakai, Saumik Sen, Tomohiro Sugihara, Yukiya Kakeyama, Makoto Iwasaki, Gebhard FX Schertler, Xavier Deupi, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Akihisa Terakita   +8 more
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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 sequence data for a major deuterostome clade, the Ambulacraria.
D'Aniello, S, Delroisse, J, Valero-Gracia, A, Lowe, EK, Byrne, M, Cannon, JT, Halanych, KM, Elphick, MR, Mallefet, J, Kaul-Strehlowi, S, Lowe, CJ, Flammang, P, Ullrich-Lueter, E, Wanninger, A, Arnone, MI   +14 more
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Rethinking Opsins [PDF]

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, Anant K Menon, Martin C Göpfert   +2 more
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The Gluopsins: Opsins without the Retinal Binding Lysine

Cells, 2022
Opsins allow us to see. They are G-protein-coupled receptors and bind as ligand retinal, which is bound covalently to a lysine in the seventh transmembrane domain. This makes opsins light-sensitive.
Martin Gühmann, Megan L. Porter, Michael J. Bok   +2 more
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