AmiGO 2: Term Details for "retinal binding" (GO:0016918)

Accession: GO:0016918
Name: retinal binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: retinaldehyde binding, UV-sensitive opsin, blue-sensitive opsin, green-sensitive opsin, long-wave-sensitive opsin, opsin, red-sensitive opsin, short-wave-sensitive opsin, violet-sensitive opsin, vitamin A binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to retinal, one of the forms of vitamin A. Retinal plays an important role in the visual process in most vertebrates, combining with opsins to form visual pigments in the retina. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0016918 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to retinal binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to retinal binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for retinal binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
11-cis retinal binding (GO:0005502)	is_a	retinal binding
all-trans retinal binding (GO:0005503)	is_a	retinal binding

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