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...

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...

molecules of photoreceptor protein which is a combination of the protein photopsin in color vision cells, rhodopsin in night vision cells, and retinal (a...

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...

applied to opsin-type photoreceptor proteins, specifically rhodopsin and photopsins, the photoreceptor proteins in the retinal rods and cones of vertebrates...

color blindness in which the gene for medium wavelength sensitive (green) photopsins is missing. Individuals with this form of colour blindness see every colour...

thereby discovering the first known cone opsin, they called apo-iodopsin photopsin (for its relation to photopic vision) and apo-rhodopsin scotopsin (for...

Normalised absorption spectra of the three human photopsins and of human rhodopsin (dashed)....

the OPN1MW gene, which encodes the medium wavelength sensitive (MWS) photopsin. The gene duplication is present in about 50% of X-chromosomes, so is...

phototransduction. This enzyme catalyses the phosphorylation of cone (color) photopsins in retinal cones during high acuity color vision primarily in the fovea...

that combine with retinal to form pigments called photopsins. Three different classes of photopsins in the cones react to different ranges of light frequency...

of photopsins expressed: a correlation that holds for vertebrates but not invertebrates. The common vertebrate ancestor possessed four photopsins (expressed...

subdivided into: Photopsins - those responsible for photopic vision (daylight), which are expressed in cone cells; hence also cone opsins. Photopsins are further...

ideally aligned approximately with the spectral sensitivities of human photopsins. In this sense, they have a similar gamut to the human visual system....

mediates pupillary reflex, involved in regulation of circadian rhythms Photopsin: reception of various colors of light in the cone cells of vertebrate...

spectra. The three human photopsins absorb yellowish-green (photopsin I), green (photopsin II), and bluish-violet (photopsin III) light and are the basis...

breaks down into opsin and retinal; iodopsin of cones breaks down into photopsin and retinal. The breakdown results in the activation of Transducin and...

Various photoreceptors in the human eye such as melanopsin, rhodopsin, and photopsin communicate with the suprachiasmatic nucleus (the master circadian pacemaker...

wavelengths of light. The opsins present in cone cells are specifically called photopsin. The spectral sensitivities of the opsins are dependent on their genetic...