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Rhodopsin

Rhodopsin sits in the back of your eye. When light hits it, it bends, and that bend starts a signal that travels to your brain.

Rhodopsin: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P08100, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

It is so sensitive that a single photon of light can trigger it.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P08100. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P08100.

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