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A Novel Go-mediated Phototransduction Cascade in Scallop Visual Cells ⬇️

scientific article published on September 12, 1997

A novel constitutively active mutation in the second cytoplasmic loop of metabotropic glutamate receptor.

scientific article published on October 2004

A pivot between helices V and VI near the retinal-binding site is necessary for activation in rhodopsins.

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Absorption Characteristics of Vertebrate Non-Visual Opsin, Opn3.

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Activation of Transducin by Bistable Pigment Parapinopsin in the Pineal Organ of Lower Vertebrates

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Amphioxus homologs of Go-coupled rhodopsin and peropsin having 11-cis- and all-trans-retinals as their chromophores.

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An all-trans-retinal-binding opsin peropsin as a potential dark-active and light-inactivated G protein-coupled receptor

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Analysis of amino acid residues in rhodopsin and cone visual pigments that determine their molecular properties

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Bistable UV pigment in the lamprey pineal.

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Cephalochordate melanopsin: evolutionary linkage between invertebrate visual cells and vertebrate photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.

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Chimeric nature of pinopsin between rod and cone visual pigments

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Conformational change of the transmembrane helices II and IV of metabotropic glutamate receptor involved in G protein activation.

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Conserved proline residue at position 189 in cone visual pigments as a determinant of molecular properties different from rhodopsins.

scientific article published on December 2002

Contribution of a visual pigment absorption spectrum to a visual function: depth perception in a jumping spider

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Convergent evolution of tertiary structure in rhodopsin visual proteins from vertebrates and box jellyfish.

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Depth perception from image defocus in a jumping spider.

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Difference in molecular structure of rod and cone visual pigments studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

scientific article published in March 2001

Distinct roles of the second and third cytoplasmic loops of bovine rhodopsin in G protein activation

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Distribution of mammalian-like melanopsin in cyclostome retinas exhibiting a different extent of visual functions

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Diversification of non-visual photopigment parapinopsin in spectral sensitivity for diverse pineal functions.

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Diversity and functional properties of bistable pigments ⬇️

scientific article published on September 17, 2010

Diversity of animal opsin-based pigments and their optogenetic potential

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Evolution and mechanism of spectral tuning of blue-absorbing visual pigments in butterflies

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Expression and comparative characterization of Gq-coupled invertebrate visual pigments and melanopsin.

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Expression of UV-sensitive parapinopsin in the iguana parietal eyes and its implication in UV-sensitivity in vertebrate pineal-related organs

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Functional properties of opsins and their contribution to light-sensing physiology

scientific article published on October 2014

G protein subtype specificity of rhodopsin intermediates metarhodopsin Ib and metarhodopsin II.

scientific article published on 17 July 2008

Gq-coupled rhodopsin subfamily composed of invertebrate visual pigment and melanopsin.

scientific article published on 29 May 2008

Green-sensitive opsin is the photoreceptor for photic entrainment of an insect circadian clock

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Heterogeneity of rhodopsin intermediate state interacting with transducin

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Highly conserved glutamic acid in the extracellular IV-V loop in rhodopsins acts as the counterion in retinochrome, a member of the rhodopsin family.

scientific article published in December 2000

Homologs of vertebrate Opn3 potentially serve as a light sensor in nonphotoreceptive tissue

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Identification and characterization of a protostome homologue of peropsin from a jumping spider.

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Identification of a new intermediate state that binds but not activates transducin in the bleaching process of bovine rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Interaction of GTP-binding protein Gq with photoactivated rhodopsin in the photoreceptor membranes of crayfish

scientific article published on 01 September 1993

Intramolecular interactions that induce helical rearrangement upon rhodopsin activation: light-induced structural changes in metarhodopsin IIa probed by cysteine S-H stretching vibrations.

scientific article published on April 2014

Isolation and characterization of a retinal-binding protein from the squid retina

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Light-induced binding of proteins to rhabdomeric membranes in the retina of crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Light-modulated subcellular localization of the alpha-subunit of GTP-binding protein Gq in crayfish photoreceptors

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

Light-regulated localization of the beta-subunit of Gq-type G-protein in the crayfish photoreceptors

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Mapping of the local environmental changes in proteins by cysteine scanning.

scientific article published on 16 January 2014

Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: genes encoding retinal photoisomerase and two putative visual cycle proteins are expressed in whole brain of a primitive chordate

scientific article published in May 2003

Parietal-eye phototransduction components and their potential evolutionary implications.

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Photochemical and biochemical properties of chicken blue-sensitive cone visual pigment.

scientific article published in October 1997

Photochemical nature of parietopsin.

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Pigmented and nonpigmented ocelli in the brain vesicle of the ascidian larva

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Presence of Two Rhodopsin Intermediates Responsible for Transducin Activation ⬇️

scientific article published on November 18, 1997

Probing for the threshold energy for visual transduction: red-shifted visual pigment analogs from 3-methoxy-3-dehydroretinal and related compounds

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

RETINOID METABOLISM AND CONVERSION OF RETINOL TO DEHYDRORETINOL IN THE CRAYFISH (PROCAMBARUS CLARKII) RETINA.

scientific article published on June 1993

Regulation of squid visual phospholipase C by activated G-protein alpha

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Retinal Attachment Instability Is Diversified among Mammalian Melanopsins.

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Retinal-binding protein as a shuttle for retinal in the rhodopsin-retinochrome system of the squid visual cells

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Selective activation of G-protein subtypes by vertebrate and invertebrate rhodopsins

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Squid photoreceptor phospholipase C is stimulated by membrane Gq alpha but not by soluble Gq alpha

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Structural changes in the Schiff base region of squid rhodopsin upon photoisomerization studied by low-temperature FTIR spectroscopy.

scientific article published in March 2006

The counterion-retinylidene Schiff base interaction of an invertebrate rhodopsin rearranges upon light activation

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

The hydrogen-bonding network of water molecules and the peptide backbone in the region connecting Asp83, Gly120, and Glu113 in bovine rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

The opsins

scientific article published in March 2005

The second cytoplasmic loop of metabotropic glutamate receptor functions at the third loop position of rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Water and peptide backbone structure in the active center of bovine rhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

[Diversity of visual pigments and phototransduction systems on the basis of both molecular phylogenetic and functional protein analyses]

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

[Structure-function relationship in G protein-coupled receptors deduced from crystal structure of rhodopsin]

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

β-arrestin functionally regulates the non-bleaching pigment parapinopsin in lamprey pineal

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