rhodopsin

Intermediate

max (nm)	*V2_ <30 ps
543	20 ns
497	20 ps
478	500 ps
380	60 s

Bathorhodopsin Lumirhodopsin Ijght Metarhodopsin I Metarhodopsin II Opsin + all-frans-retinal

Rhodopsin

reductase all-frans-Retinol

Figurę 23.25 Conformation changes that rhodopsin undergoes after photoactivation that leads to Metarhodopsin II, active rhodopsin.

Figurę 23.26 Transport and motabolism ot 11-c»- and aM-trans-retinal into the pigmrnW

/I. I eber .or.jioutJ I

Photon

oprthohum.

Kcdrawn from 1’ctrjuli. I., Roki, J.-M.. Cerber. S. . Cha/.i. I.. l-cow*ki. C.. et amauroais. MoL Gen. & Mętni. 68: 200. 1999.