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The Structure, Spectra, and Reactivity of Visual Pigments

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Photochemistry of Vision

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((1536,volume 7 / 1))

Abstract

Recent chemical and physical studies have clearly shown that visual pigments are an integral part of a lipoprotein membrane whose apparent role is to initiate cation exchange flow across its boundaries, when illuminated, giving rise, thereby, to a neural receptor potential. As membrane structures visual pigments are unique in that they contain, as the principal prosthetic group, a chromophore whose rather singular absorption spectrum serves as a sensitive probe of its molecular environment and whose spectral changes provide an essentially non-perturbative method of monitoring molecular events occurring within the membrane.

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Abrahamson, E.W., Wiesenfeld, J.R. (1972). The Structure, Spectra, and Reactivity of Visual Pigments. In: Dartnall, H.J.A. (eds) Photochemistry of Vision. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65066-6_3

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