Retinal Chromophore of Rhodopsin Photoisomerizes Within Picoseconds
- 27 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4485), 942-944
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7466366
Abstract
A new picosecond resonance Raman technique shows that resonance Raman lines characteristic of a distorted all-trans retinal appear within 30 picoseconds after photolysis of rhodopsin or isorhodopsin. This finding suggests that isomerization is nearly complete within picoseconds of the absorption of a photon.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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