Sunday, 11 October 2015

Characteristics of mammalian melanopsins for non-visual photoreception

FLORA AND FAUNA
Characteristics of mammalian melanopsins for non-visual photoreception
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 12, 2015 - Researchers at Institute for Molecular Sciences reported that a mammalian photoreceptive protein melanopsin spontaneously releases the chromophore retinal. The property would be important to regulate non-visual photoreception in mammals. This work was carried out as a collaborative work of Drs. Hisao Tsukamoto and Yuji Furutani (Institute for Molecular Science) with Yoshihiro Kubo (Nationa ... more


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