Light adaptation of bacteriorhodopsin in
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Dominique Massotte; Francois Boucher; Jacques Aghion
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Article
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1988
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Springer
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English
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In the presence of valinomycin and K +, bacteriorhodopsin undergoes (i) a decrease of its maximum absorbance, (ii) a blue shift of the maximum wavelength of both the light and the dark adapted forms. However (iii) a normal light adaptation is maintained and (iv) the retinal-retinal interactions are