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ArticleZoological letters2019

Spectral tuning mediated by helix III in butterfly long wavelength-sensitive visual opsins revealed by heterologous action spectroscopy.

Tomoka Saito, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Tomohiro Sugihara, Takashi Nagata, Kentaro Arikawa, Akihisa Terakita

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Article in Zoological letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Expression of a homologue of a vertebrate non-visual opsin Opn3 in the insect photoreceptors.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  12. Molecular advances to study the function, evolution and spectral tuning of arthropod visual opsins.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  16. The evolution of red color vision is linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuning in lycaenid butterflies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tomoka Saito1Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558-8585 Japan.
Mitsumasa Koyanagi1Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558-8585 Japan.
Tomohiro Sugihara1Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558-8585 Japan.
Takashi Nagata1Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558-8585 Japan.
Kentaro Arikawa3Laboratory of Neuroethology, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Shonan Village, Hayama, 240-0115 Japan.
Akihisa Terakita1Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558-8585 Japan.
Osaka City University · JPThe Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Absorption spectra of opsin-based pigments are tuned from the UV to the red regions by interactions of the chromophore with surrounding amino acid residues. Both vertebrates and invertebrates possess long-wavelength-sensitive (LWS) opsins, which underlie color vision involving "red" sensing. The LWS opsins have independently evolved in each lineage, which suggests the existence of diverse mechanisms in spectral tuning. In vertebrate LWS opsins, the mechanisms underlying spectral tuning have been well characterized by spectroscopic analyses with recombinant pigments of wild type (WT) and mutant opsins. However in invertebrate LWS opsins including insect ones, the mechanisms are largely unknown due to the difficulty in obtaining recombinant pigments. Here we have overcome the problem by analyzing heterologous action spectra based on light-dependent changes in the second messenger in opsin-expressing cultured cells. We found that WTs of two LWS opsins of the butterfly,

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Color visionConvergent evolutionRed sensitivityRhodopsin

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