Opsin-3; encephalopsin; panopsin (OPN3, ECPN)

Function

• may play a role in encephalic photoreception

Structure

• belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 1 family, Opsin subfamily

Compartment

membrane

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

Expression

• strongly expressed in brain
• highly expressed in the preoptic area & paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus
• highly patterned expression in other regions of the brain
  • cerebral cortex,
  • cerebellar Purkinje cells
  • a subset of striatal neurons
  • a subset of thalamic nuclei
  • a subset of interneurons in the ventral horn of the spinal cord

More general terms

• opsin

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=23596
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:23596
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/606695
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9H1Y3.html