Human melanopsin forms a pigment maximally sensitive to blue light ( max   479 nm) supporting activation of Gq/11 and Gi/o signalling cascades

Photochemical Properties of Mammalian Melanopsin

(2012) Take Matsuyama et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Melanopsin-Based Brightness Discrimination in Mice and Humans

(2012) Timothy M. Brown et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Profound defects in pupillary responses to light in TRPM-channel null mice: a role for TRPM channels in non-image-forming photoreception

(2012) Steven Hughes et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Negative Regulation of Gq-mediated Pathways in Platelets by G12/13Pathways through Fyn Kinase

(2011) Soochong Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A “Melanopic” Spectral Efficiency Function Predicts the Sensitivity of Melanopsin Photoreceptors to Polychromatic Lights

(2011) Jazi al Enezi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Melanopsin signalling in mammalian iris and retina

(2011) T. Xue et al.   NATURE

Melanopsin-Expressing Retinal Ganglion-Cell Photoreceptors: Cellular Diversity and Role in Pattern Vision

(2010) Jennifer L. Ecker et al.   NEURON

Regulation of cAMP Responses by the G12/13 Pathway Converges on Adenylyl Cyclase VII

(2008) Lily I. Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Sensitivity of the Human Circadian System to Short-Wavelength (420-nm) Light

(2008) George C. Brainard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

The acute light-induction of sleep is mediated by OPN4-based photoreception

(2008) Daniela Lupi et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Photochemistry of retinal chromophore in mouse melanopsin

(2008) Marquis T. Walker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Jellyfish vision starts with cAMP signaling mediated by opsin-Gs cascade

(2008) M. Koyanagi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA