Rethinking opsins
Authors Feuda R, Menon AK, Göpfert MC Journal Molecular Biology and Evolution Citation Mol Biol Evol. 2022 Feb 10:msac033. Abstract Opsins, the protein moieties of animal visual photo-pigments, have emerged as moonlighting proteins with diverse, light-dependent and -independent physiological functions. This raises the need to revise some basic assumptions concerning