Rethinking Opsins |
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| Authors: | Roberto Feuda Anant K Menon Martin C Gpfert |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom;2. Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA;3. Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | sensory transduction photosensitivity vision moonlighting proteins G protein-coupled receptors sensory cell evolution |
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