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Accessibility of the Iodopsin Chromophore

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Specialties Biochemistry
Biophysics
Date 1975 Oct 9
PMID 1182163
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Abstract

Iodopsin can replace its chromophore (11-cis retinal) by added 9-cis retinal, resulting in the formation of isoiodopsin. NaBH4 bleaches iodopsin in the dark. In a relatively low concentration of digitonin, the scotopsin (the protein moiety of chicken rhodopsin) removes 11-cis retinal from iodopsin in the dark. These facts suggest that the linkage of the chromophore to opsin in the iodopsin molecule (presumably a Schiff-base linkage) is accessible to these reagents, which is different from the situation in rhodopsin.

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