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. 1992 Dec;56(6):1135-44.
doi: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1992.tb09738.x.

Photolysis of rhodopsin results in deprotonation of its retinal Schiff's base prior to formation of metarhodopsin II

T E Thorgeirsson  1 , J W Lewis, S E Wallace-Williams, D S Kliger
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Photolysis of rhodopsin results in deprotonation of its retinal Schiff's base prior to formation of metarhodopsin II

T E Thorgeirsson et al. Photochem Photobiol. 1992 Dec.

Abstract

Absorption changes following photolysis of bovine rhodopsin in mildly sonicated membrane suspensions are monitored at 25 degrees C. Difference spectra collected at 17 times between 1 microsecond and 75 ms following excitation are analyzed globally using singular value decomposition and non-linear least-squares fitting techniques. The results are not consistent with the simple scheme: Lumirhodopsin-->Metarhodopsin I<-->Metarhodopsin II, but indicate that an intermediate with a deprotonated Schiff's base is formed nearly simultaneously with metarhodopsin I upon the decay of Lumirhodopsin.

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