The Kinetics of Formation of Metarhodopsin in Intact Photoreceptors of the Fly
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- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
- Vol. 33 (11-12), 1009-1010
- https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-1978-11-1234
Abstract
The formation of metarhodopsin in fly [Drosophila] photoreceptor no. 1-6 occurs at room temperature with a time constant of 125 .mu.s (Q10 .apprxeq. 2.5). The formation of rhodopsin is faster by a factor of at least 1/10-1/100.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Rhodopsin and the visual processBiochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Bioenergetics, 1977
- Fly visual pigments difference in visual pigments of blowfly and dronefly peripheral retinula cellsJournal of Comparative Physiology A, 1976