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13109155

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1954-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
The molar extinction of rhodopsin is 40,600 cm.(2) per mole equivalent of retinene; i.e., this is the extinction of a solution of rhodopsin which is produced by, or yields on bleaching, a molar solution of retinene. The molar extinctions of all-trans retinene and all-trans retinene oxime have also been determined in ethyl alcohol and aqueous digitonin solutions. On the assumption that each chromophoric group of rhodopsin is made from a single molecule of retinene, it is concluded that the primary photochemical conversion of rhodopsin to lumi-rhodopsin has a quantum efficiency of 1; though the over-all bleaching of rhodopsin in solution to retinene and opsin may have a quantum efficiency as low as one-half. On bleaching cattle rhodopsin, about two sulfhydryl groups appear for each molecule of retinene liberated. In frog rhodopsin the -SH:retinene ratio appears to be higher, 5:2 or perhaps even 3:1. Some of this sulfhydryl appears to have been engaged in binding retinene to opsin; some may have been exposed as the result of changes in opsin which accompany bleaching, comparable with protein denaturation.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
OM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-1295
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
189-200
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-6-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1953
pubmed:articleTitle
The molar extinction of rhodopsin.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article