RRH

RRH
Identifiers
AliasesRRH, retinal pigment epithelium-derived rhodopsin homolog
External IDsOMIM: 605224; MGI: 1097709; HomoloGene: 55977; GeneCards: RRH; OMA:RRH - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_006583

NM_009102

RefSeq (protein)

NP_006574

NP_033128

Location (UCSC)Chr 4: 109.83 – 109.85 MbChr 3: 129.6 – 129.62 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Peropsin, a visual pigment-like receptor, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RRH gene.[5][6] It belongs like other animal opsins to the G protein-coupled receptors.[6] Even so, the first peropsins were already discovered in mice and humans in 1997,[5] not much is known about them.[7]

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000180245Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028012Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ a b Sun H, Gilbert DJ, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Nathans J (September 1997). "Peropsin, a novel visual pigment-like protein located in the apical microvilli of the retinal pigment epithelium". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94 (18): 9893–9898. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.9893S. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.18.9893. PMC 23288. PMID 9275222.
  6. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: RRH retinal pigment epithelium-derived rhodopsin homolog".
  7. ^ Gühmann M, Porter ML, Bok MJ (August 2022). "The Gluopsins: Opsins without the Retinal Binding Lysine". Cells. 11 (15): 2441. doi:10.3390/cells11152441. PMC 9368030. PMID 35954284. Material was copied and adapted from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.