Opsins, the protein moieties of animal visual photo-pigments, have emerged as moonlighting proteins with diverse, light-dependent and -independent physiological functions. This raises the need to revise some basic assumptions concerning opsin expression, structure, classification, and evolution. © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Roberto Feuda, Anant K Menon, Martin C Göpfert. Rethinking Opsins. Molecular biology and evolution. 2022 Mar 02;39(3)
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