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Self-regenerating opsin from reef-building coral
Yusuke Sakai, Yasushi Imamoto, Shino Inukai…·Akihisa Terakita
This paper identifies a coral opsin, AtAntho2c, that can autonomously regenerate its inactive state through thermal isomerization of retinal, enabling repeated light responses without exogenous retinal.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.24.727572