Probing for the Threshold Energy for Visual Transduction: Red-Shifted Visual Pigment Analogs from 3-Methoxy-3-Dehydroretinal and Related Compounds
摘要:
Abstract— While azulenic retinal analogs failed to yield a red‐shifted visual pigment analog, the 9‐cis isomers of the push‐pull polyenals 3‐methoxy‐3‐dehydroretinal and 14F‐3‐me‐thoxy‐3‐dehydroretinal yielded iodopsin pigment analogs with absorption maxima at, respectively, 663 and 720 nm. The former gave a relatively stable batho product (700 nm) and was able to activate transducin. A lower activity was observed for the latter. One possible explanation for the combined results is that the excitation energies of these red‐shifted pigments are approaching the threshold energy for visual transduction (although at this time we cannot rigorously exclude a role of the added F‐atom in reducing the transducin activity).
Probing for the Threshold Energy for Visual Transduction: Red-Shifted Visual Pigment Analogs from 3-Methoxy-3-Dehydroretinal and Related Compounds
摘要:
Abstract— While azulenic retinal analogs failed to yield a red‐shifted visual pigment analog, the 9‐cis isomers of the push‐pull polyenals 3‐methoxy‐3‐dehydroretinal and 14F‐3‐me‐thoxy‐3‐dehydroretinal yielded iodopsin pigment analogs with absorption maxima at, respectively, 663 and 720 nm. The former gave a relatively stable batho product (700 nm) and was able to activate transducin. A lower activity was observed for the latter. One possible explanation for the combined results is that the excitation energies of these red‐shifted pigments are approaching the threshold energy for visual transduction (although at this time we cannot rigorously exclude a role of the added F‐atom in reducing the transducin activity).