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Molecular Aspects of Photoreceptor Function: Carotenoids and Rhodopsins

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Abstract

Among the various biological pigments implicated in photoreception of solar energy are carotenoids and caroteno-proteins.

The different photochemical properties of the carotenoids, electronically excited in vitro, vary with the number of conjugated double bonds present in the molecule. They can be related to the established or hypothetical function of carotenoids in vivo. These photophysical and photochemical properties are altered when the polyenes are bound to a protein. Two pigments where a C20 polyene (retinal) is bound to a protein are the focal point of recent studies rhodopsin, the visual pigment, and bacteriorhodopsin allowing Halobacterium halobium to use light energy to drive its metabolic processes and its movements. The spectral transformations of those two pigments after illumination will be described as well as their functions in the membranes where they are inserted.

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Bensasson, R.V. (1980). Molecular Aspects of Photoreceptor Function: Carotenoids and Rhodopsins. In: Lenci, F., Colombetti, G. (eds) Photoreception and Sensory Transduction in Aneural Organisms. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9164-1_11

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