C.elegansHomolog LITE-1

Jianke Gong1, Yiyuan Yuan2, Alex Ward3

  • 1College of Life Science and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China; Life Sciences Institute and Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Cell
|November 19, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らはC. elegansに 新しいタイプの光受容体LITE-1を発見しました この味覚受容体のホモログは,オプシンのような既知の光受容体とは異なる機能で,効率的に紫外線を吸収します.