Upper limit on translational diffusion of visual pigment in intact unfixed barnacle photoreceptors |
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Authors: | E. Almagor P. Hillman B. Minke |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
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Abstract: | Translational diffusion of pigment molecules in the disc membranes of amphibian rod outer segments is in the range of 10 /10 s. Recently, Goldsmith and Wehner set an upper limit of 10 /20 min to the diffusion in isolated formaldehyde-fixed rhabdoms of crayfish. We have now used the early receptor potential (ERP) to study the diffusion in intact, unfixed barnacle photoreceptors. The ERP from a cell fully adapted to blue light (most of the pigment in the rhodopsin state) was changed by 8–22% of its maximum change when the pigment in a 30 m spot was (almost) completely shifted to the metarhodopsin state by red laser adaptation. Further red illumination of the same spot 30 min later produced only a limited further change in the ERP (attributable to light scatter), showing that R had not migrated into the spot. It is concluded that the visual pigment diffuses by less than 30 /30 min.Based on material presented at the European Neurosciences Meeting, Florence, September 1978 |
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Keywords: | Visual pigment Diffusion Photoreceptor Membrane |
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