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  • Interesting paper @glims, thanks for the background. I looked in a little to comparing protein sequences for Retinol Binding Protein on pBLAST and even between mice analogs and humans there was some amount of variability. I wanted to run a BLAST comparison for porphyropsin (fish) and rhodopsin (mammal), but I'm having some…
  • @glims Sorry for being confusing, on the microyza webpage there is mention of transport proteins having 4x the affinity for A1 compared to A2, I was just curious which transporter or proteins that this was referring to. I did some looking around and I came up with that graphic which is from webvision.med.utah.edu. Thanks…
  • @Cassox and @glimms and @Saal: Thanks for the answers! I see now that this really is quite feasible. Also, I just realized the difficulty of obtaining human opsin directly to do a binding assay lol. I guess there's always cadavers donated to science! I'd love to hear any proposed ideas for getting around the membrane…
  • Interesting concept Saal, a few quick questions though. So is opsin basically rhodopsin minus the vitamin A? Or in other words, is the protein portion of photopsin/rhodopsin the same as porphyropsin when not complex with vitamin A/A2? If they are the same protein( I'm not trying to rain on your parade), it would seem to me…
  • Yea, that's what I afraid of. Is it possible to have an magnetic dermal anchor where the magnet is above the skin or would the weight still be too much? Sorry, I seem to have multiple accounts associated with one email.