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Rabbit Anti-Encephalopsin antibody
Opsins are members of the guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptor superfamily. In addition to the visual opsins, mammals possess several photoreceptive non-visual opsins that are expressed in extraocular tissues. This gene, opsin 3, is strongly expressed in brain and testis and weakly expressed in liver, placenta, heart, lung, skeletal muscle, kidney, and pancreas. The gene may also be expressed in the retina. The protein has the canonical features of a photoreceptive opsin protein. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Function:
May play a role in encephalic photoreception.
Subcellular Location:
Membrane.
Tissue Specificity:
Strongly expressed in brain. Highly expressed in the preoptic area and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Shows highly patterned expression in other regions of the brain, being enriched in selected regions of the cerebral cortex, cerebellar Purkinje cells, a subset of striatal neurons, selected thalamic nuclei, and a subset of interneurons in the ventral horn of the spinal cord.
Similarity:
Belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 1 family. Opsin subfam
SWISS:
Q9H1Y3
Gene ID:
23596
Database links:
Entrez Gene: 23596 Human
Entrez Gene: 1723 Mouse
Omim: 606695 Human
SwissProt: Q9H1Y3 Human
SwissProt: Q9WUK7 Mouse
Unigene: 409081 Human
Unigene: 32744 Mouse
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