To do this, researchers needed a tool to isolate and express a particular insect opsin gene in order to explore its structure and function when expressed in the membranes of cells in cell culture ...

MARY W. DONOHUE, KAREN L. CARLETON, THOMAS W. CRONIN, Opsin Expression in the Central Nervous System of the Mantis Shrimp Neogonodactylus oerstedii, Biological Bulletin, Vol. 233, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ...

Opsin 3 has been the focus of research in Oancea’s lab for almost a decade, and the team has discovered that it is present in melanocytes, where it functions in pigmentation, and has developed a ...

Now that they have determined opsin 3's role in skin pigmentation, the team is seeking to learn in what other parts of the body opsin 3 is produced and what kind of functions it might have.

Opsin variants that have been engineered to have slower or faster deactivation kinetics, such as the stabilized step-function opsin or 'ChETA' (E123T mutation-containing channelrhodopsin) variants ...

They are the most abundant proteins in the retina. These light-sensing photopigments are responsible for color vision (cone opsins) and vision in dim light (rhodopsin). While previous studies have ...

DAVIDE FAGGIONATO, JEANNE M. SERB, Strategy to Identify and Test Putative Light-Sensitive Non-Opsin G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, Biological Bulletin, Vol. 233, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: New insights from ...