The seminar discusses the identification of retinoid-binding sites on Retinol Binding Protein 3 (RBP3). It explains the role of RBP3 in the visual cycle, retinoid transport between photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium, and structural studies combining cryo-EM, molecular docking and SAXS
About the speaker
Luca Gessa obtained a master’s degree in molecular biosciences at the University of Oslo. His master’s thesis focused on methyltransferase 18 and his results were published in Nucleic Acids Research. He is a PhD student at ICTER working on the structural characterization of Retinol Binding Protein 3
