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. 1964 Mar 1;47(4):679–689. doi: 10.1085/jgp.47.4.679

Photoreversal of Rhodopsin Bleaching

T P Williams 1
PMCID: PMC2195350  PMID: 14127606

Abstract

A mechanistic scheme, showing certain steps of rhodopsin bleaching, provides two ways of viewing the bleaching process: (a) The rate of bleaching depends upon the net rate of accumulation of labile species; and (b) the number of labile molecules which accumulates in a certain period is the number which has absorbed an odd number of quanta by the end of that period. Both views, based on the photoreversibility of bleaching, lend themselves to concise mathematical formulation. The expected amounts of bleaching at various intensities, calculated according to these formulae, give very close fits to the experimental data. The relevance of these results to other experiments is pointed out and emphasis is placed on the explanation of observed quantum efficiencies which obtain at both low and high intensities.

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