Tautomeric Forms of Metarhodopsin
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Tautomeric Forms of Metarhodopsin
Light isomerizes the chromophore of rhodopsin, 11-cis retinal (formerly retinene), to the all-trans configuration. This introduces a succession of unstable intermediates-pre-lumirhodopsin, lumirhodopsin, metarhodopsin -in which all-trans retinal is still attached to the chromophoric site on opsin. Finally, retinal is hydrolyzed from opsin. The present experiments show that metarhodopsin exists ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Physiology
سال: 1963
ISSN: 1540-7748,0022-1295
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.47.2.215