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. 1997 May;72(5):2320–2328. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78876-3

Light-induced protein conformational changes in the photolysis of octopus rhodopsin.

M Nakagawa 1, S Kikkawa 1, T Iwasa 1, M Tsuda 1
PMCID: PMC1184427  PMID: 9129835

Abstract

Light-induced protein conformational changes in the photolysis of octopus rhodopsin were measured with a highly sensitive time-resolved transient UV absorption spectrophotometer with nanosecond time resolution. A negative band around 280 nm in the lumirhodopsin minus rhodopsin spectra suggests that alteration of the environment of some of the tryptophan residues has taken place before the formation of lumirhodopsin. A small recovery of the absorbance at 280 nm was observed in the transformation of lumirhodopsin to mesorhodopsin. Kinetic parameters suggest that major conformational changes have taken place in the transformation of mesorhodopsin to acid metarhodopsin. In this transformation, drastic changes of amplitude and a shift of a difference absorption band around 280 nm take place, which suggest that some of the tryptophan residues of rhodopsin become exposed to a hydrophilic environment.

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