opsin in English

noun
1
a protein that forms part of the visual pigment rhodopsin and is released by the action of light.
Rhodopsin consists of a protein called opsin bonded to a pigment called retinal.

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1. These Cones contain photopigments, known as opsin amino acids, that are sensitive to different wavelengths of visible light

2. You can reuse opsin a derived data type but it involves a tremendous amount of boilerplate.

3. The Ctenophore-specific clade branches closer to the ciliary-opsin and Go/RGR groups than to the rhabdomeric-opsins

4. Vitamin A is to create visual cells in order to feel weak light of the composition of rhodopsin, rhodopsin from opsin and 11 - cis - retinal composition, with the dark vision related.

5. A third putative Mnemiopsis opsin (MleiOpsin3) does not group with the other Ctenophore opsins, and instead branches on its own at the base of all opsins with low support

6. Although sustained activation of this opsin in axon terminals has the unintended consequence of enhancing spontaneous vesicle release, it is unclear whether this desynchronized signaling is consequential for Archt’s behavioral effects.

7. Archae-opsin-1 (aO-1) has been expressed efficiently as a fusion protein with 13 heterologous amino acids at the amino terminus of the mature aO-1 in Escherichia coli under the control of T7 promoter