metarhodopsins

unstable intermediate occurring during the bleaching of rhodopsin

Also Known As:

metarhodopsin; metarhodopsin I; metarhodopsin II; metarhodopsin III; Rhodopsins, meta-

Networked: 2 relevant articles (0 outcomes, 0 trials/studies)

1.	Retinitis Pigmentosa (Pigmentary Retinopathy) 05/30/2003 - "Increased formation of non-active forms of rhodopsin, like metarhodopsin III, may have some influence in the molecular defect underlying retinitis pigmentosa in the mutants studied. "
2.	Decompression Sickness (Bends) 03/21/1979 - "Those of the chromophores of bathorhodopsin, lumirhodopsin and metarhodopsin I are similar to one another except that the conjugated chain of metarhodopsin I bends considerably when compared with the other intermediates."