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Genetic and Molecular Basis of Cone Opsin Phototransduction.
Biochemistry. Biokhimiia - 1 Aug 2026
Cao Hanwen, Puig-Puig Nora, Cruz Alejandro, Koch Karl-Wilhelm, Garriga Pere
Abstract excerpt
The vertebrate visual system contains a sophisticated physiological assembly of highly-specialized proteins that mediate light stimuli to be processed by the brain. Two types of cells, the rod and cone cells, are involved in detecting dim and bright light, respectively. The rod cell contains rhodopsin whose structure and function has been extensively studied and the molecular interactions involving rhodopsin and...
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- Animals
- Humans
- Light Signal Transduction
- Zebrafish
- Cone Opsins
- Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
- Mutation
