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Rhodopsin formation in Drosophila is dependent on the PINTA retinoid-binding protein.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 25 May 2005
Wang Tao, Montell Craig
Abstract excerpt
Retinoids participate in many essential processes including the initial event in photoreception. 11-cis-retinal binds to opsin and undergoes a light-driven isomerization to all-trans-retinal. In mammals, the all-trans-retinal is converted to vitamin A (all-trans-retinol) and is transported to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), where along with dietary vitamin A, it is converted into 11-cis-retinal. Although...
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