The primary process of vision and the structure of bathorhodopsin: a mechanism for photoisomerization of polyenes.
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 82 (2), 259-263
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.82.2.259
Abstract
A model for the primary process of vision is proposed, which involves a novel concerted-twist motion. Application of such motions to cattle rhodopsin and bathorhodopsin successfully accounts for the properties of bathorhodopsin and related intermediates, including specific assignment of molecular structures to bathorhodopsin, to lumirhodopsin and less specifically, to hypsorhodopsin.Keywords
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