THE RHODOPSIN SYSTEM OF THE SQUID
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- 20 January 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 41 (3), 501-528
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.41.3.501
Abstract
Squid rhodopsin (λmax 493 mµ)—like vertebrate rhodopsins—contains a retinene chromophore linked to a protein, opsin. Light transforms rhodopsin to lumi- and metarhodopsin. However, whereas vertebrate metarhodopsin at physiological temperatures decomposes into retinene and opsin, squid metarhodopsin is stable.Keywords
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