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- Title
In silico characterisation and chromosomal localisation of human RRH (peropsin)--implications for opsin evolution.
- Authors
Bellingham, James; Wells, Dominic J; Foster, Russell G
- Abstract
The vertebrate opsins are proteins which utilise a retinaldehyde chromophore in their photosensory or photoisomerase roles in the visual/irradiance detection cycle. The majority of the opsins, such as rod and cone opsins, have a very highly conserved gene structure suggesting a common lineage. Exceptions to this are RGR-opsin and melanopsin, whose genes have very different intron insertion positions. The gene structure of another opsin, peropsin (retinal pigment epithelium-derived rhodopsin homologue, RRH) is unknown.
- Publication
BMC genomics, 2003, Vol 4, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1471-2164
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2164-4-3