Microbial rhodopsins are diverse photoreceptive proteins containing a retinal chromophore
and are found in all domains of cellular life and are even encoded in genomes of viruses …

Rhodopsins are photoreceptive membrane proteins consisting of a common heptahelical
transmembrane architecture that contains a retinal chromophore. Rhodopsin was first …

Despite remarkable progress, mainly due to the development of LCP and
'bicelle'crystallization, lack of structural information remains a bottleneck in membrane …

Phytoplankton is the base of the marine food chain as well as oxygen and carbon cycles and
thus plays a global role in climate and ecology. Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses that …

Rhodopsins convert light into signals and energy in animals and microbes. Heliorhodopsins
(HeRs), a recently discovered new rhodopsin family, are widely present in archaea, bacteria …

The recently discovered rhodopsin family of heliorhodopsins (HeRs) is abundant in diverse
microbial environments. So far, the functional and biological roles of HeRs remain unknown …

The first member and eponym of the rhodopsin family was identified in the 1930s as the
visual pigment of the rod photoreceptor cell in the animal retina. It was found to be a …

Third-generation sequencing has penetrated little in metagenomics due to the high error
rate and dependence for assembly on short-read designed bioinformatics. However, second …

Schizorhodopsins (SzRs), a new rhodopsin family identified in Asgard archaea, are
phylogenetically located at an intermediate position between type-1 microbial rhodopsins …

ABSTRACT “Candidatus Actinomarinales” was defined as a subclass of exclusively marine
Actinobacteria with small cells and genomes. We have collected all the available genomes …