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Chemistry and molecular physiology of vision: light-sensitive protein rhodopsin
M. A. Ostrovskyab, T. B. Feldmanab a Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology
Abstract:
The review concerns literature data on the structure, functions and molecular simulation of rhodopsin. The mechanisms of the spectral tuning of visual pigments, photoisomerization of the rhodopsin chromophore group (11-cis-retinal moiety) and the formation of the physiologically active state of rhodopsin as a G-protein-coupled receptor are considered. Particular attention is given to the rhodopsin visual cycle and pathogenetic consequences of its impairment. A knowledge of the structure and photochemistry of rhodopsin was shown to be of importance for the use in nanotechnology of the future. The bibliography includes 219 references.
Received: 03.03.2012
Citation:
M. A. Ostrovsky, T. B. Feldman, “Chemistry and molecular physiology of vision: light-sensitive protein rhodopsin”, Usp. Khim., 81:11 (2012), 1071–1090; Russian Chem. Reviews, 81:11 (2012), 1071–1090
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