Studies on the flash photolysis of visual pigments. 1. Pigments present in frog-rhodopsin solutions after flash-irradiation
- 1 April 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 79 (1), 128-134
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0790128
Abstract
Alkaline digitonin solutions of frog rhodopsin were exposed to an intense 4 msec flash from an 400J xenon discharge tube. A thermally stable phososensitive residue of rhodopsin and a new pigment, P486 ([tau]max = 486 m[mu]) was found after the flash solution was kept in the dark 1 hr. The amount and content of residue was dependent upon flash intensity but independent of addition of 0.01[image] hydroxy-lamine. The residue yield increased inversely with temperature.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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