Rhodopsin, a pigment of the retina that is responsible for perception of light is also involved in temperature sensation. The work emerged from a collaboration between the laboratory of Andrew Chess, ...

The P23H mutation within the rhodopsin gene (RHO) causes rhodopsin misfolding, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), leading to rod photoreceptor ...

A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -- of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water easily.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The chromophore of visual pigments is 11-cis-retinal and, thus, in its absence, opsin is not photosensitive and no visual function exists.

Seeing starts in the rods and cones, two different types of sensory cells in the retina of the eye. The rods are responsible for dark vision and are particularly sensitive to light as a result. A ...

Animals can adapt their ability to see even with extreme changes in temperature, researchers have discovered. The researchers looked deeply into the eyes of catfish living in cold-water streams at ...

Sammons J and Gross AK. 2012 In vitro biochemical assays to monitor rhodopsin function. Methods in Molecular Biology, in publication. Hollingsworth TJ and Gross AK. Defective trafficking of rhodopsin ...

Retinitis pigmentosa is the most prevalent form of congenital blindness. Using a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model, researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now shown that ...