Primary intermediates of rhodopsin studied by low temperature spectrophotometry and laser photolysis. Bathorhodopsin, hypsorhodopsin and photorhodopsin |
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Authors: | T Yoshizawa Y Shichida S Matuoka |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan |
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Abstract: | The primary photochemical processes of rhodopsin studied by low temperature spectrophotometry and picosecond laser spectroscopy in our group was summarized. Low temperature spectroscopic experiments demonstrated that the retinylidene chromophores of hypso- and bathorhodopsins are in a twisted all-trans forms. Excitation of rhodopsin with 532 nm laser pulse (width: 25 psec) yielded a new bathochromic photoproduct "photorhodopsin"; its spectrum was located at longer wavelengths than that of bathorhodopsin. Photorhodopsin decays to bathorhodopsin with time constants of about 200 psec in squid and 40 psec in cattle. Squid and octopus hypsorhodopsins were produced within 25 psec by high energy pulse, but not by low energy pulse. Thus hypsorhodopsin is produced by two photon reactions (sequential two photochemical reactions) and decayed to bathorhodopsin with time constant of 125 psec. |
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Keywords: | Rhodopsin Photorhodopsin Hypsorhodopsin Bathorhodopsin Low temperature spectrophotometry Picosecond laser photolysis |
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