Sentences with phrase «produce rhodopsin»

Vitamin A helps the body produce rhodopsin in the retina to help prevent macular degeneration.

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Golden Rice is a strain that is genetically modified by molecular techniques (and therefore labeled a genetically modified organism or GMO) to produce β - carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. Vitamin A is an essential component of the light - absorbing molecule rhodopsin in the eye.

Ramirez found rhodopsin — usually produced in the eye — in the sensory neurons on the tissue's surface.

Along these lines I have heard that there is a bacteriophage (virus that infects bacteria) that will substitute its own rhodopsin gene — which it has no use for in the absence of a host — for the bacterial rhodopsin so that the bacterium will continue to produce energy even as its systems shut down due the the infection.