THERMAL DECAY OF INTERMEDIATES OF RHODOPSIN IN SITU
THERMAL DECAY OF INTERMEDIATES OF RHODOPSIN IN SITU
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6989(68)90071-0
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发表时间:
1968-01-01
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影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
EBREY, TG
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作者:
EBREY, TG
The half-lives for the thermal decay of several of the intermediates formed in the bleaching of rhodopsin have been studied in the retina of the albino rat using the fast photo voltages produced by the action of light on these intermediates. The rates of decay of Intermediate “A” (meta I), Intermediate “B” (meta II), and Intermediate “C” (P465) have been measured over a range of temperatures and their kinetic parameters calculated. The half-lives of these intermediates at 37°C are 40 microseconds, 140 seconds, and 1100 seconds respectively. Only the decay of Intermediate “A” is rapid enough at physiological temperatures to be possibly involved in visual excitation. The decay of Intermediate “C” is sufficiently slow to perhaps affect the rate of regeneration of rhodopsin. The kinetic (pseudothermodynamic) parameters of thesein situstudies, such as the activation energies, ΔF*, ΔH*and ΔS*for the three intermediates, are in agreement, within experimental error, with most of the values reported from the solution data. The quantum efficiency for the photoreversal of Intermediate “A” to rhodopsin was also measured using the fast photo voltages from rhodopsin and was found to be 0.55 ± 0.1.