Light is a powerful source of energy that is used for various biological purposes. Some organisms harness light to produce ATP, the energy currency of cells, while others use light to interpret ...

Professor Yuki SUDO of Okayama University seeks an innovative form of treatment using rhodopsin, a protein with light-reactive qualities. By extracting it and artificially inserting it into ...

On illumination, rhodopsin passes through several unstable intermediates to a final mixture of retinal and opsin. One of these intermediates, metarhodopsin II, can be reduced by sodium borohydride ...

The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that the rhodopsin gene mutation, ...

Two new compounds may be able to treat retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. The compounds were identified using a virtual screening approach.

In their paper, titled “Discovery of non-retinoid compounds that suppress the pathogenic effects of misfolded rhodopsin in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa,” the team concluded ...