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Opsin Is a Phospholipid Flippase [PDF]
Current Biology, 2011 Polar lipids must flip-flop rapidly across biological membranes to sustain cellular life [1, 2], but flipping is energetically costly [3] and its intrinsic rate is low. To overcome this problem, cells have membrane proteins that function as lipid transporters (flippases) to accelerate flipping to a physiologically relevant rate.
Sakmar, TP +9 more
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Ciliary Transport of Opsin [PDF]
, 2009 As part of the renewal of photoreceptor outer segment disk membranes, membrane proteins are transported along the region of the cilium, connecting the inner and outer segments. Genetics studies have indicated the role of motor proteins in this transport.
Deepti, Trivedi, David S, Williams
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A low-cost hyperspectral scanner for natural imaging and the study of animal colour vision above and under water [PDF]
, 2019 Hyperspectral imaging is a widely used technology for industrial and scientific purposes, but the high cost and large size of commercial setups have made them impractical for most basic research.
Baden, T, Nevala, N E
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Vision Research, 2006 Palmitylation is a widespread modification in G-protein-coupled receptors and often a dynamic process. In rhodopsins, palmitylation is static on C322/C323. Red/green (M/LWS) cone opsins have no cysteines at corresponding positions and no palmitylation.
Ablonczy, Zsolt +3 more
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Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2020 Optogenetics is a biological technique that combines the advantageous spatial-temporal resolution of optics and genetic cell targeting to control cellular activity with unprecedented precision. It has found vast applications both in neurosciences and therapy, particularly in view of its application to restore vision in blind patients.
Simon, Cardillia-Joe +4 more
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A Go-type opsin mediates the shadow reflex in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii
BMC Biology, 2018 Background The presence of photoreceptive molecules outside the eye is widespread among animals, yet their functions in the periphery are less well understood.
Thomas Ayers +4 more
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Optogenetic Gene Therapy for the Degenerate Retina: Recent Advances
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 The degeneration of light-detecting rod and cone photoreceptors in the human retina leads to severe visual impairment and ultimately legal blindness in millions of people worldwide.
Michelle E. McClements +5 more
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EvoDevo, 2023 Background Opsins are the primary proteins responsible for light detection in animals. Cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, corals) have diverse visual systems that have evolved in parallel with bilaterians (squid, flies, fish) for hundreds of millions ...
Kyle J. McCulloch +5 more
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Zoological Letters, 2019 Absorption spectra of opsin-based pigments are tuned from the UV to the red regions by interactions of the chromophore with surrounding amino acid residues. Both vertebrates and invertebrates possess long-wavelength-sensitive (LWS) opsins, which underlie
Tomoka Saito +5 more
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Activation of Transducin by Bistable Pigment Parapinopsin in the Pineal Organ of Lower Vertebrates. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Pineal organs of lower vertebrates contain several kinds of photosensitive molecules, opsins that are suggested to be involved in different light-regulated physiological functions. We previously reported that parapinopsin is an ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive
Emi Kawano-Yamashita +5 more
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