How To Use Rhodopsin In A Sentence
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Also, rhodopsin helps keeping our eyes see things clearly in the dark by improving the visual ability, and at the same time protects us from the hazard of the computer radiation.
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It is the reddish purple color of retinal that gives rhodopsin its former name visual purple.
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Retinal sections were stained with cresyl violet for examining general retinal lamination and with photoreceptor cell-specific antibodies (rhodopsin, cone arrestin), which showed the preservation of cone and rod photoreceptors within the MSC treated animals.
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Hartmut Michel managed to crystallize a membrane protein (bacteriorhodopsin) after having solubilized the lipid bilayer of the membrane with a detergent.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988
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A new approach to the three-dimensional structure of membrane proteins has been developed and tested on the integral membrane protein, bacteriorhodopsin, the crystal structure of which had previously been determined.
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We constructed eight mutant rhodopsin proteins and studied the effect of arrestin-mediated deactivation.
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1966-70 Continued microcosm studies: with Scott Nixon metabolism of brine microcosms and analog simulation showed rhodopsin photorespiration in pink Halophilic bacteria before it was found by physiologists.
Annotated contributions of Howard T. Odum
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Namely, two rhodopsins that absorb in different spectral bands and optimally function at different intensity ranges generate two photoreceptor currents that control flagella movement during phototaxis.
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This pellet was utilized to prepare bacteriorhodopsin while the supernatant was used for the isolation of crude fatty acids.
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Although this can be visualized for bacteriorhodopsin, the calculation is a large computational undertaking.
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Another anion, azide, is used in the study of bacteriorhodopsin mutants as a substitute for proton donor or acceptor when they are altered in the protein.
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The NK1, kappa opioid, and CCRS receptors all have an amino acid composition similar to rhodopsin near the conserved Pro.
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The carotenoid compounds, including beta-carotene, are essential components of our diets, acting as precursors to the chromophoric molecule rhodopsin, the pigment of vision.
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The newly identified isomerase enzyme plays a crucial role in the regeneration of rhodopsin visual pigment in the retina after light exposure.
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Other arrhythmic animals must also have dichromatic color vision during the day and detect wavelengths somewhere between 430 and 500 nm at night, depending on their rhodopsins and specific types of blue pigments.
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Rhodopsin consists of a protein called opsin bonded to a pigment called retinal.
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Upon replacement of chloride ion with azide, the fast electric signal changes its sign from positive to negative, and becomes similar to that detected in bacteriorhodopsin.
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The scientists were able to see previously unobserved changes in the structure of rhodopsin, which is a model for the ubiquitous G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), heptahelical, transmembrane receptors found in eukaryotic cells.
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The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Dr. Deisseroth, who is also a psychiatrist who treats patients with autism or severe depression, has ambitious goals.
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This is one order of magnitude slower than the decay of K in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle.
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Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect.
State of the Union
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He also investigated the mutations in rhodopsin that are associated with retinitis pigmentosa, the cause of night blindness.
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PYP belongs to the group of photoactive proteins including the rhodopsins, the phytochromes, and the cryptochromes.
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Halorhodopsin, an electrogenic light-driven ion pump which belongs to the family of the seven-helical trans-membrane proteins, was discovered in the archaea Halobacterium salinarum.
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In 2003 they published a paper with a bold claim: “ChR2 [a variant of channelrhodopsin] may be used to depolarize [that is, excite] animal cells… simply by illumination.”
World Wide Mind
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The method was parameterized with the aim of retrieving the native structure of bacteriorhodopsin among near- and far-from-native templates.
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Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect.
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Even native, isolated pigment proteins like bacteriorhodopsin have been investigated for their applicability as optical switches.
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The non-radiative resonance energy transfer between purple membrane protein(Bacteruiorhodopsin) PM and ionophore A23187 was observed.
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Walter Stockenius, Dieter Oesterhelt had discovered bacteriorhodopsin in halobacteria and later proposed that it acts as a lightdriven proton pump in the framework of Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory.
Hartmut Michel - Autobiography
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Deyes goes on to discuss rhodopsin before throwing this red hot pepper in the pot:
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Vitamin A then combines with a protein opsin to form rhodopsin.
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Lack of proton-pumping activity has also been found in heterologously expressed Neurospora rhodopsin, which has carboxylated residues at both the Schiff base proton donor and acceptor positions, as does GtR1.
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The spectra of the intermediates and the ground forms of the rhodopsin family possess a characteristic common feature.
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We trace which amino acids contact the chromophore of rhodopsin.
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And it invites the conclusion that rhodopsin-like compounds are a particularly favoured way of going about light detection in the animal world.
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This alters the way in which one of the proteins in the retina—rhodopsin, a pigment responsible for night vision as well as blue-green color vision—behaves.
Birdology
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Internal structural water molecules seem to play an important role in proton conduction in membrane proteins like bacteriorhodopsin, the photosynthetic reaction center, and cytochrome-c oxydases.
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The membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump, is a very suitable protein to study proton transfer.
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The integral membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin acts as a light-driven proton pump in the purple membrane of Halobacterium salinarum.
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Because azido has a unique vibration frequency that is sensitive to its surroundings, the team was able to use the spectroscopic data to confirm structural changes rhodopsin undergoes in light versus dark.
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At the same time the present study shows that proteorhodopsin-mediated phototrophy (the process of acquiring energy from light) allows marine bacteria to better survive periods of starvation in an often nutrient-depleted ocean.
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Another protein is rhodopsin, which is found in cells that make up the retina of the eye.
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Blurred vision can be a lack of a light sensitive pigment called rhodopsin, or visual purple, that’s composed of vitamin A and protein.
Human Eye: Part 4
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This result qualitatively explains the experimentally observed wavelength dependence of Phi for rhodopsin and reveals the importance of delocalized, torsional modes in the reactive pathway.
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Vitamin A is material to synthesis rhodopsin which is a kind of sensitive material in human and animal retina.
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Saranak J, Patel N, Zarilli G, Okabe M, et al. (1984) A rhodopsin is the functional photoreceptor for phototaxis in the unicellular eukaryote
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