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Interaction of a conformationally rigid analogue of retinal with bacterio-opsin
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1982
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Protein AssemblyRigid AnaloguePhotobiologyBacteriophageMolecular BiologyCytoskeletonRetinaProtein FoldingArtificial PigmentBiophysicsPlanar Ring–chain ConformationOphthalmologyConformational StudyProkaryotic VirusStructural BiologyPhotoreceptor CellNaphthyl AnalogueNatural SciencesMedicine
The naphthyl analogue of retinal (2) combines with bacterio-opsin to produce an artificial pigment absorbing at λmax 504 nm; this suggests that in the native pigment all-trans-retinal may be held around the 6,7-bond in a planar ring–chain conformation.