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Photoreceptor proteins are light-sensitive proteins involved in the sensing and response to light in a variety of organisms. Some examples are rhodopsin in the photoreceptor cells of the vertebrate retina, phytochrome in plants, and bacteriorhodopsin and bacteriophytochromes in some bacteria. They mediate light responses as varied as visual perception, phototropism and phototaxis, as well as responses to light-dark cycles such as circadian rhythm and other photoperiodisms including control of flowering times in plants and mating seasons in animals.

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Photoreceptor protein

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Photoreceptor proteins are light-sensitive proteins involved in the sensing and response to light in a variety of organisms. Some examples are rhodopsin...

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Photoreceptor cell

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signals that can stimulate biological processes. To be more specific, photoreceptor proteins in the cell absorb photons, triggering a change in the cell's membrane...

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Photoreceptor

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(microbial photoreceptor), the photoreceptor organelle of a unicellular organism that allows for phototaxis In biochemistry: Photoreceptor protein, a chromoprotein...

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Eyespot apparatus

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phototaxis. The most critical eyespot proteins are the photoreceptor proteins that sense light. The photoreceptors found in unicellular organisms fall into...

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Rod cell

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cells are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in lower light better than the other type of visual photoreceptor, cone cells...

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Eye

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very earliest "eyes", called eye-spots, were simple patches of photoreceptor protein in unicellular animals. In multicellular beings, multicellular eyespots...

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Photopigment

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In medical terminology, "photopigment" commonly refers to the photoreceptor proteins of the retina. Photosynthetic pigments convert light into biochemical...

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Pea protein

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Pea protein is a food product and protein supplement derived and extracted from yellow and green split peas, Pisum sativum. It can be used as a dietary...

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Pikachurin

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Pikachurin, an extracellular matrix–like retinal protein, is localized to the synaptic cleft in the photoreceptor ribbon synapse. It is demonstrated that with...

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Sense

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an example of a specialized receptor (3), a photoreceptor. A transmembrane protein receptor is a protein in the cell membrane that mediates a physiological...

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Night vision

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photodetectors. All photoreceptor cells in the vertebrate eye contain molecules of photoreceptor protein which is a combination of the protein photopsin in color...

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Visual phototransduction

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transduction process of the visual system by which light is detected by photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) in the vertebrate retina. A photon is absorbed...

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OPN5

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Opsin-5 is a member of the opsin subfamily of the G protein-coupled receptors. It is a photoreceptor protein sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) light. The OPN5 gene...

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Octopus

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hypothesis is that cephalopod eyes in species that only have a single photoreceptor protein may use chromatic aberration to turn monochromatic vision into colour...

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Rhodopsin

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of G-protein-coupled receptors that bind retinal and as a result become a light sensitive photoreceptor, including all closely related proteins. When...

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Adenosylcobalamin

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2016). "New light on vitamin B12: The adenosylcobalamin-dependent photoreceptor protein CarH". South African Journal of Science. 112 (9–10): 9. doi:10.17159/sajs...

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Phytochrome

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Phytochromes are a class of photoreceptor proteins found in plants, bacteria and fungi. They respond to light in the red and far-red regions of the visible...

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Cryptochrome

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the photoreceptor, and the cryptogamic organisms on which many blue-light studies were carried out. The genes CRY1 and CRY2 encode the proteins CRY1...

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Adam Rutherford

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Dorothy (2000), "Retinoschisin, the X-linked retinoschisis protein, is a secreted photoreceptor protein, and is expressed and released by Weri–Rb1 cells", Human...

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Caenorhabditis elegans

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sensitive to light due to a third type of light-sensitive animal photoreceptor protein, LITE-1, which is 10 to 100 times more efficient at absorbing light...

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Opsin

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become retinylidene proteins, but are usually still called opsins regardless. Most prominently, they are found in photoreceptor cells of the retina....

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Magnetoreception

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2000, however, when Thorsten Ritz and colleagues suggested that a photoreceptor protein in the eye, cryptochrome, was a magnetoreceptor, working at a molecular...

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Simple eye in invertebrates

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the photoreceptor layer, essentially it is out of focus. Dorsal ocelli ubiquitously have massive convergence ratios from first-order (photoreceptor) to...

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Retinitis pigmentosa

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protein of photoreceptor outer segments. Mutations in this gene most commonly presents as missense mutations or misfolding of the rhodopsin protein,...

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Evolution of the eye

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despite lacking a brain. The earliest predecessors of the eye were photoreceptor proteins that sense light, found even in unicellular organisms, called "eyespots"...

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Pinealocyte

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may have once served as photoreceptor cells. Researchers have also indicated the presence of several photoreceptor proteins found in the retina in the...

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