Sundaralingam M, Beddell C
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1972 Jun;69(6):1569-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.69.6.1569.
A detailed conformational analysis of the known crystal structures of vitamin A, carotenoid, and xanthenoid derivatives has been made. These studies suggest that the visual chromophore 11-cis retinal and its isomers may each occur in several different conformational states, which would be expected to have different lightabsorbing characteristics. The presence of such states for 11-cis retinal and all-trans retinal may contribute to the observed rhodopsin intermediates that have been characterized by different lambda(max) values, and to the breadth of spectral response in scotopic and color vision.
已对维生素A、类胡萝卜素和呫吨类衍生物的已知晶体结构进行了详细的构象分析。这些研究表明,视觉发色团11-顺式视黄醛及其异构体可能各自以几种不同的构象状态存在,预计这些状态具有不同的光吸收特性。11-顺式视黄醛和全反式视黄醛的这些状态的存在可能有助于观察到的视紫红质中间体,这些中间体已通过不同的最大吸收波长值进行了表征,并有助于暗视觉和色觉中的光谱响应宽度。