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Facts about Visual pigment-like receptor peropsin.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | RRH |
Uniprot: | O14718 |
Entrez: | 10692 |
Belongs to: |
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G-protein coupled receptor 1 family |
peropsin; retinal pigment epithelium-derived rhodopsin homolog; visual pigment-like receptor peropsin
Mass (kDA):
37.423 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 4q25 |
Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (109827972..109844942) |
Found only in the eye, where it is localized to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). In the RPE, it is localized to the microvilli that surround the photoreceptor outer segments.
Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
PMID: 9275222 by Sun H., et al. Peropsin, a novel visual pigment-like protein located in the apical microvilli of the retinal pigment epithelium.
PMID: 12542842 by Bellingham J., et al. In silico characterisation and chromosomal localisation of human RRH (peropsin) -- implications for opsin evolution.