Light isomerizes the chromophore of bacteriorhodopsin

Pre-Lumirhodopsin and the Bleaching of Visual Pigments

Tôru Yoshizawa, George Wald · Nature · 1963 · 522 citations

Medicine, Ophthalmology, Vision Science +11

Reversible Photolysis of the Purple Complex in the Purple Membrane of <i>Halobacterium halobium</i>

Dieter Oesterhelt, Benno Hess · European Journal of Biochemistry · 1973 · 352 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +16

Resonance Raman studies of the purple membrane

B. Aton, Apostolos G. Doukas, Robert Callender et al. · Biochemistry · 1977 · 317 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +17

Photoisomerization, energy storage, and charge separation: A model for light energy transduction in visual pigments and bacteriorhodopsin

Barry Honig, Thomas G. Ebrey, Robert Callender et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1979 · 271 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Biophysics +14

THE MECHANISM OF BLEACHING RHODOPSIN

Allen Kropf, Ruth Hubbard · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1958 · 239 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Physiology +6