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Phototransduction motifs and variations.
Review in Cell, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 247 papers.
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247 citing papers in PubMed, 481 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Light intensity and opsin sensitivity shape the morphology of cone photoreceptor outer segments.PLoS biology · 2026Article
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- Synaptic Plasticity Engineering for Neural Precision, Temporal Learning, and Scalable Neuromorphic Systems.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
- Non-visual opsins and their role in circadian photoentrainment.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2026Review
- Discovery and design of photocyclic animal opsins: potential application to gene therapy from non-visual opsin research.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2025Review
- Transcriptional downregulation of rhodopsin is associated with desensitization of rods to light-induced damage in a murine model of retinitis pigmentosa.Human molecular genetics · 2025Article
- The physiology of dark adaptation: Progress and future directions.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025Review
- Design principles of ciliary signaling.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- Light them up: photoresponsive imine-containing systems.Chemical science · 2025Review
- Retinoid dynamics in vision: from visual cycle biology to retina disease treatments.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2025Review
187 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Seeing begins in the photoreceptors, where light is absorbed and signaled to the nervous system. Throughout the animal kingdom, photoreceptors are diverse in design and purpose. Nonetheless, phototransduction-the mechanism by which absorbed photons are converted into an electrical response-is highly conserved and based almost exclusively on a single class of photoproteins, the opsins. In this Review, we survey the G protein-coupled signaling cascades downstream from opsins in photoreceptors across vertebrate and invertebrate species, noting their similarities as well as differences.
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