Abstract
Pulsed Nd laser (25 ns, 530 nm) photolysis experiments were carried out at room temperature in aqueous suspensions of dark- and light-adapted fragments of the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium. It is shown that the (50%) 13-cis isomeric component (BR13-cis) of dark-adapted bacteriorhodopsin (BRDA) undergoes a photocycle involving a characteristic transient absorbing in the neighborhood of 610 nm. At relatively high excitation intensities BR13-cis is converted to the same 410 nm (M) transient that characterized the photocycle of the all-trans isomer (BRtrans) of light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin (BRLA). This process, which competes with the generation of the "610" species, is attributed to the photo-induced conversion, during the pulse, of BR13-cis (or of its primary photoproduct "X") to a species in the BRtrans photocyte. The relationship between these observations and the mechanism of BRDA hv leads to BRLA adaptation at low excitation intensities (for which a quantum yield limit, 0 less than or equal to (3.5 +/- 0.7) X 10(-2) , is established) is discussed.
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