ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2010
Opsin co-expression in Limulus photoreceptors: differential regulation by light and a circadian clock.
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- Bioluminescence and environmental light drive the visual evolution of deep-sea shrimp (Oplophoroidea).Communications biology · 2025Article
- Secondary not subordinate: Opsin localization suggests possibility for color sensitivity in salticid secondary eyes.Vision research · 2024Article
- Functional characterization of four opsins and two G alpha subtypes co-expressed in the molluscan rhabdomeric photoreceptor.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Adaptation to the shallow sea floor environment of a species of marine worms, Oligobrachia mashikoi, generally inhabiting deep-sea water.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The diversity of invertebrate visual opsins spanning Protostomia, Deuterostomia, and Cnidaria.Developmental biology · 2022Review
- The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution.eLife · 2020Article
- Light organ photosensitivity in deep-sea shrimp may suggest a novel role in counterillumination.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Candidate Genes and Pathways Involved in Larval Settlement of the Barnacle Megabalanus volcano.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Article
- Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia.eLife · 2017Article
- The nervous and visual systems of onychophorans and tardigrades: learning about arthropod evolution from their closest relatives.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Review
- Structural differences and differential expression among rhabdomeric opsins reveal functional change after gene duplication in the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians (Pectinidae).BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Opsin Repertoire and Expression Patterns in Horseshoe Crabs: Evidence from the Genome of Limulus polyphemus (Arthropoda: Chelicerata).Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Determination of Photoreceptor Cell Spectral Sensitivity in an Insect Model from In Vivo Intracellular Recordings.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2016Article
- Immunolocalization of Arthropsin in the Onychophoran Euperipatoides rowelli (Peripatopsidae).Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2016Article
- Expression and light-triggered movement of rhodopsins in the larval visual system of mosquitoes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2015Article
- Opsins in Limulus eyes: characterization of three visible light-sensitive opsins unique to and co-expressed in median eye photoreceptors and a peropsin/RGR that is expressed in all eyes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2015Article
- Opsin expression in Limulus eyes: a UV opsin is expressed in each eye type and co-expressed with a visible light-sensitive opsin in ventral larval eyes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
- Rhodopsin coexpression in UV photoreceptors of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
- Quantitative proteomics study of larval settlement in the Barnacle Balanus amphitrite.PloS one · 2014Article
- What the clock tells the eye: lessons from an ancient arthropod.Integrative and comparative biology · 2013Review
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Abstract
A long-standing concept in vision science has held that a single photoreceptor expresses a single type of opsin, the protein component of visual pigment. However, the number of examples in the literature of photoreceptors from vertebrates and invertebrates that break this rule is increasing. Here, we describe a newly discovered Limulus opsin, Limulus opsin5, which is significantly different from previously characterized Limulus opsins, opsins1 and 2. We show that opsin5 is co-expressed with opsins1 and 2 in Limulus lateral and ventral eye photoreceptors and provide the first evidence that the expression of co-expressed opsins can be differentially regulated. We show that the relative levels of opsin5 and opsin1 and 2 in the rhabdom change with a diurnal rhythm and that their relative levels are also influenced by the animal's central circadian clock. An analysis of the sequence of opsin5 suggests it is sensitive to visible light (400-700 nm) but that its spectral properties may be different from that of opsins1 and 2. Changes in the relative levels of these opsins may underlie some of the dramatic day-night changes in Limulus photoreceptor function and may produce a diurnal change in their spectral sensitivity.
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