{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kojima K"],"funding":["Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology","Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development","Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"],"pagination":["5367-5381"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9923458"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13(8)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Rhodopsins, a family of photoreceptive membrane proteins, contain retinal as a chromophore and were firstly identified as reddish pigments from frog retina in 1876. Since then, rhodopsin-like proteins have been identified mainly from animal eyes. In 1971, a rhodopsin-like pigment was discovered from the archaeon <i>Halobacterium salinarum</i> and named bacteriorhodopsin. While it was believed that rhodopsin- and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins were expressed only in animal eyes and archaea, respectively, before the 1990s, a variety of rhodopsin-like proteins (called animal rhodopsins or opsins) and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins (called microbial rhodopsins) have been progressively identified from various tissues of animals and microorganisms, respectively. Here, we comprehensively introd"],"journal":["RSC advances"],"pubmed_title":["Convergent evolution of animal and microbial rhodopsins."],"pmcid":["PMC9923458"],"funding_grant_id":["20dm0207060h0004","JP21H02446","JP19K16090","JP21H00404","JP19H05396","JP21K15054","JP18H02411","JPMJCR1656","JP19H04727","JP20K21482"],"pubmed_authors":["Sudo Y","Kojima K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Convergent evolution of animal and microbial rhodopsins.","description":"Rhodopsins, a family of photoreceptive membrane proteins, contain retinal as a chromophore and were firstly identified as reddish pigments from frog retina in 1876. Since then, rhodopsin-like proteins have been identified mainly from animal eyes. In 1971, a rhodopsin-like pigment was discovered from the archaeon <i>Halobacterium salinarum</i> and named bacteriorhodopsin. While it was believed that rhodopsin- and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins were expressed only in animal eyes and archaea, respectively, before the 1990s, a variety of rhodopsin-like proteins (called animal rhodopsins or opsins) and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins (called microbial rhodopsins) have been progressively identified from various tissues of animals and microorganisms, respectively. Here, we comprehensively introd","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Feb","modification":"2025-05-18T12:27:28.836Z","creation":"2025-02-19T03:27:21.962Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9923458","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36793294"],"doi":["10.1039/d2ra07073a"]}}