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Biochemistry and Physiology of Visual Pigments

Symposium Held at Institut für Tierphysiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum/W. Germany, August 27–30, 1972

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1973

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Editors:
  1. Helmut Langer

    1. Institut für Tierphysiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 463 Bochum-Querenburg, W. Germany

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Table of contents (43 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introductory Lecture

    1. Visual Pigments and Photoreceptor Physiology

      • George Wald
      Pages 1-13

  3. Pigment Structure and Chemical Properties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Theory of Retinal and Related Molecules

      • M. Karplus
      Pages 17-18

    3. Conformations of 11-cis Retinal

      • W. Sperling
      Pages 19-28

    4. The Binding Site of Retinaldehyde in Native Rhodopsin

      • W. J. de Grip, S. L. Bonting, F. J. M. Daemen
      Pages 29-38

    5. Chromophore Migration after Illumination of Rhodopsin

      • S. L. Bonting, J. P. Rotmans, F. J. M. Daemen
      Pages 39-44

  4. Photolysis and Intermediates of the Pigments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Kinetics of Early Intermediate Processes in the Photolysis of Visual Pigments

      • Edwin W. Abrahamson
      Pages 47-56

    3. Photoselection and Linear Dichroism of Retinal Isomers and Visual Pigments

      • Joram Heller, Joseph Horwitz
      Pages 57-68

    4. Studies on Intermediates of Visual Pigments by Absorption Spectra at Liquid Helium Temperature and Circular Dichroism at Low Temperatures

      • Tôru Yoshizawa, Shinri Horiuchi
      Pages 69-81

    5. Interconversion of Metarhodopsins

      • T. P. Williams, B. N. Baker, D. J. Eder
      Pages 83-88

    6. Temperature Dependence of Slow Thermal Reactions during the Bleaching of Rhodopsin in the Frog Retina

      • Ch. Baumann, R. Reinheimer
      Pages 89-99

    7. Metarhodopsin III

      • R. A. Weale
      Pages 101-104

    8. The Effect of Urea upon the Photosensitivity of Bovine Rhodopsin

      • Aubrey Knowles
      Pages 105-111

  5. Regeneration of the Pigments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Interrelations of Visual Pigments and “Vitamins A” in Fish and Amphibia

      • C. D. B. Bridges
      Pages 115-121

    3. A Catalytic Role of Dihydroriboflavin in the Geometrical Isomerization of all-trans Retinal

      • Sidney Futterman, Martha H. Rollins
      Pages 123-130

    4. Active Site and Enzymological Studies on the Components of the Visual Cycle

      • M. Akhtar, S. Amer, M. D. Hirtenstein
      Pages 131-138

    5. Formation of Isorhodopsin from Photolyzed Rhodopsin in Darkness

      • J. P. Rotmans, F. J. M. Daemen, S. L. Bonting
      Pages 139-145
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About this book

This book is a report of a four-day Symposium on the Biochemistry and Physiology of Visual Pigments, which took place immediately after the VIth International Congress on Photobiology, held in Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, in August 1972. This meeting, which brought together about 50 investigators of various aspects of the visual process, was devoted to the visual cells of both vertebrates and invertebrates. Whereas the International Symposium on the Biochemistry of the Retina, held at Nij­ megen, The Netherlands, in 1968, had concentrated on vertebrate photoreceptors, this Symposium dealt with invertebrate photoreceptors as well, so that workers in each field could become acquainted with recent progress in the other area. The papers presented at the Symposium were divided into six main topics, to each of which a half-day session was devoted. The six parts of this book, following the intro­ ductory lecture, essentially correspond to these sessions. In addition to the invited con­ tributions, the volume contains a number of short communications by other partici­ pants and two contributions by invited participants, who were unable to attend. The volume closes, as did the Symposium, with a General Discussion, prepared and moderated by S. L. BONTING, in which an attempt was made to integrate various new findings, and to reconcile certain points of disagreement.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Tierphysiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 463 Bochum-Querenburg, W. Germany

    Helmut Langer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biochemistry and Physiology of Visual Pigments

  • Book Subtitle: Symposium Held at Institut für Tierphysiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum/W. Germany, August 27–30, 1972

  • Editors: Helmut Langer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85769-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-85771-3Published: 19 August 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-85769-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 368

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Biochemistry, general

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