PHOTOEXCITATION OF RHODOPSIN: CONFORMATION CHANGES IN THE CHROMOPHORE, PROTEIN AND ASSOCIATED LIPIDS AS DETERMINED BY FTIR DIFFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY
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- 公開日
- 1988-10
- 権利情報
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
- DOI
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- 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1988.tb02852.x
- 公開者
- Wiley
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<jats:p><jats:bold>Abstract—</jats:bold>The visual pigment rhodopsin is the major membrane protein in the rod photoreceptor membrane. Rhodopsin's function is to transduce the light induced isomerization (ll‐cis to<jats:italic>all‐trans)</jats:italic>of its internally located retinylidene chromophore into transient expression of signal sites at the surface of the protein. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy has been used to study all of the steps in the photobleaching sequence of rhodopsin. Early protein alterations involving the peptide backbone and aspartic and/or glutamic carboxyl groups were detected which increase upon lumirhodopsin formation and spread to water exposed carboxyl groups by metarhodopsin II. The intensified and frequency shifted hydrogen‐out‐of‐plane vibrations of the chromophore that are present in bathorhodopsin are absent in lumirhodopsin. This indicates that by lumirhodopsin, the chromophore has relaxed relative to its more strained all‐frans form in bathorhodopsin. Finally, the transition to metarhodopsin II is found to involve perturbation of the acyl tail region of unsaturated phospholipid molecules possibly in response to small changes in the shape of the rhodopsin.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Photochemistry and Photobiology
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Photochemistry and Photobiology 48 (4), 497-504, 1988-10
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