Formation and decay of prelumirhodopsin at room temperatures. Academic Article

abstract

• We have excited detergent-solubilized bovine rhodopsin at room temperature with 530-nm light pulses from a mode locked laser, and have observed the appearance and decay of a transient species that absorbs more strongly at 560 nm than does ground-state rhodopsin. Our data show that the absorbing intermediate appears in a time that is at least as short as the experimental resolution (about 6 psec) and decays with a life time of about 30 nsec. The extremely fast risetime supports the hypothesis that prelumirhodopsin is the product of the primary photoprocess.

authors

• Rentzepis, Peter

published proceedings

• Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

author list (cited authors)

• Busch, G. E., Applebury, M. L., Lamola, A. A., & Rentzepis, P. M.

citation count

• 233

complete list of authors

• Busch, GE||Applebury, ML||Lamola, AA||Rentzepis, PM

publication date

• October 1972

publisher

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Cattle
• Detergents
• Kinetics
• Lasers
• Light
• Photochemistry
• Radiation Effects
• Retina
• Retinal Pigments
• Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet

PubMed Central ID

• 4507603

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1073/pnas.69.10.2802

start page

• 2802

end page

• 2806

volume

• 69

issue

• 10

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1073%2Fpnas.69.10.2802