Rhodopsin

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A purplish-red, light-sensitive pigment found in RETINAL ROD CELLS of most vertebrates. It is a complex consisting of a molecule of ROD OPSIN and a molecule of 11-cis retinal (RETINALDEHYDE). Rhodopsin exhibits peak absorption wavelength at about 500 nm.

Descriptor ID	D012243
MeSH Number(s)	D12.776.543.750.695.955 D23.767.930.750.500.500
Concept/Terms	Rhodopsin Rhodopsin Visual Purple

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Proteins [D12.776]
Membrane Proteins [D12.776.543]
Receptors, Cell Surface [D12.776.543.750]
Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled [D12.776.543.750.695]
Rhodopsin [D12.776.543.750.695.955]
Biological Factors [D23]
Pigments, Biological [D23.767]
Retinal Pigments [D23.767.930]
Opsins [D23.767.930.750]
Rod Opsins [D23.767.930.750.500]
Rhodopsin [D23.767.930.750.500.500]

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Bar chart showing 15 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2010 and 2018 and 2023

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
2006	0	1	1
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	0	1	1
2010	0	2	2
2011	0	1	1
2012	1	0	1
2018	1	1	2
2019	1	0	1
2023	0	2	2
2024	1	0	1

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Scott BM, Chen SK, Van Nynatten A, Liu J, Schott RK, Heon E, Peisajovich SG, Chang BSW. Scaling up Functional Analyses of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin. J Mol Evol. 2024 02; 92(1):61-71.

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Castiglione GM, Chiu YLI, Gutierrez EA, Van Nynatten A, Hauser FE, Preston M, Bhattacharyya N, Schott RK, Chang BSW. Convergent evolution of dim light vision in owls and deep-diving whales. Curr Biol. 2023 11 06; 33(21):4733-4740.e4.

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Truong HM, Cruz-Col?n KO, Mart?nez-M?rquez JY, Willer JR, Travis AM, Biswas SK, Lo WK, Bolz HJ, Pearring JN. The tectonic complex regulates membrane protein composition in the photoreceptor cilium. Nat Commun. 2023 09 13; 14(1):5671.

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Van Nynatten A, Janzen FH, Brochu K, Maldonado-Ocampo JA, Crampton WGR, Chang BSW, Lovejoy NR. To see or not to see: molecular evolution of the rhodopsin visual pigment in neotropical electric fishes. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 07 10; 286(1906):20191182.

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Jean-Charles N, Buenaventura DF, Emerson MM. Identification and characterization of early photoreceptor cis-regulatory elements and their relation to Onecut1. Neural Dev. 2018 11 22; 13(1):26.

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Gutierrez EA, Castiglione GM, Morrow JM, Schott RK, Loureiro LO, Lim BK, Chang BSW. Functional Shifts in Bat Dim-Light Visual Pigment Are Associated with Differing Echolocation Abilities and Reveal Molecular Adaptation to Photic-Limited Environments. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 10 01; 35(10):2422-2434.

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Yuzlenko O, Lazaridis T. Membrane protein native state discrimination by implicit membrane models. J Comput Chem. 2013 Apr 05; 34(9):731-8.

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Greenbaum E, Smith EN, de S? RO. Molecular systematics of the Middle American genus Hypopachus (Anura: Microhylidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2011 Nov; 61(2):265-77.

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Kurland MD, Newcomer MB, Peterlin Z, Ryan K, Firestein S, Batista VS. Discrimination of saturated aldehydes by the rat I7 olfactory receptor. Biochemistry. 2010 Aug 03; 49(30):6302-4.

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Pecic S, Makkar P, Chaudhary S, Reddy BV, Navarro HA, Harding WW. Affinity of aporphines for the human 5-HT2A receptor: insights from homology modeling and molecular docking studies. Bioorg Med Chem. 2010 Aug 01; 18(15):5562-75.

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