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    Rhodopsin, also known as visual purple, is a protein encoded by the RHO gene and a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). It is a light-sensitive receptor...
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    Microbial rhodopsins, also known as bacterial rhodopsins, are retinal-binding proteins that provide light-dependent ion transport and sensory functions...
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  • Bacterial rhodopsin may refer to: Microbial rhodopsin, also known as type-I rhodopsin Bacteriorhodopsin, a type of microbial rhodopsin This disambiguation...
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    misfolding of the rhodopsin protein, and most frequently follow autosomal dominant inheritance patterns. Since the discovery of the rhodopsin gene, more than...
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    then binds to the phosphorylated rhodopsins to further inhibit the rhodopsin activity. While arrestin shuts off rhodopsin, an RGS protein (functioning as...
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    greatly reduced. Rods contain a receptor-protein called rhodopsin. When light falls on rhodopsin, it undergoes a series of conformational changes ultimately...
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  • Rhodopsin kinase (EC 2.7.11.14, rod opsin kinase, G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 1, GPCR kinase 1, GRK1, opsin kinase, opsin kinase (phosphorylating)...
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    eye. The opsin in the vertebrate rod cells is rhodopsin. The rods form disks, which contain the rhodopsin molecules in their membranes and which are entirely...
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    Rhodopsin-like receptors are a family of proteins that comprise the largest group of G protein-coupled receptors. G-protein-coupled receptors, GPCRs,...
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    Sensory rhodopsin II is found in Halobacterium salinarum and Natronomonas pharaonis. Structure of sensory rhodopsin II is typical for microbial rhodopsin. It...
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    is then Tyr7.53. Another numbering scheme is based on cattle rhodopsin. Cattle rhodopsin has 348 amino acids and is the first opsin whose amino acid sequence...
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    OR6A2 gene. It is Class II (tetrapod-specific) olfactory receptor and a rhodopsin-like receptor. Olfactory receptors interact with odorant molecules in...
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    rod and cone photoreceptors. Light leads to conformational changes in rhodopsin, which in turn leads to the activation of transducin. Transducin activates...
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    glutamate receptors) or to the binding site within transmembrane helices (rhodopsin-like family). They are all activated by agonists, although a spontaneous...
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  • Retinylidene proteins, or rhodopsins in a broad sense, are proteins that use retinal as a chromophore for light reception. They are the molecular basis...
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    opsins. The rod opsins are called scotopsins when unbound to retinal and rhodopsins or porphyropsins when bound to retinal (1 and 2, respectively). Rod opsins...
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  • (red light). Rod photoreceptors only contain one type of photopigment, rhodopsin, which has a peak sensitivity at a wavelength of approximately 500 nanometers...
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  • eye becomes fully functional at the time of opening. The visual pigment rhodopsin (rho) is the first known sign of differentiation in rods. To understand...
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    of rhodopsin. In human rod cells, these events occur about once every 100 seconds on average, which, taking into account the number of rhodopsin molecules...
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    aiding vision specifically, it combines with the protein opsin to form rhodopsin, the light-absorbing molecule necessary for both low-light (scotopic vision)...
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    plays a key role in the inhibition of rhodopsin kinase, a molecule which regulates the phosphorylation of rhodopsin. A reduction in this inhibition helps...
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    regulating the activity of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in the visual rhodopsin system by Hermann Kühn, Scott Hall, and Ursula Wilden and in the β-adrenergic...
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  • serotype Saro A.19 Cloud, a 1930 British flying boat Subfamily A19, a rhodopsin-like receptors subfamily Vultee A-19, a 1939 American attack aircraft...
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  • for Glutamate, Rhodopsin, Adhesion, Frizzled/Taste2, Secretin. They correspond to classical classes C (class C, glutamate), A (rhodopsin-like), B2 (Secretin...
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    Proteorhodopsin (also known as pRhodopsin) is a family of transmembrane proteins that use retinal as a chromophore for light-mediated functionality, in...
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  • transduction cascade. Examples of photoreceptor pigments include: retinal (in rhodopsin) flavin (in cryptochrome) bilin (in phytochrome) In medical terminology...
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    complete and annotated genome of the whale shark was published in 2017. Rhodopsin, the light-sensing pigment in the rod cells of the retina, is normally...
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  • British Isles plant community Noradrenergic cell group A7 Subfamily A7, a Rhodopsin-like receptors subfamily A7 (classification), an amputee sport classification...
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  • serogroup of the Human MHC HLA-A Homeobox A10, a human gene Subfamily A10, a Rhodopsin-like receptors subfamily A10 chipset, mainly used in Android tablet computers...
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    visibility: it could be due to conventional detection (excitation of rhodopsin molecules in the retina), direct excitation of retinal nerve cells, or...
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