Photoreversibility and photostability in films of octopus rhodopsin isolated from octopus photoreceptor membranes

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 947-951

  Paternolli, Cristina ^a   Neebe, Martin ^b   Stura, Enrico ^a   Barbieri, Francesca ^c   Ghisellini, Paola ^c   Hampp, Norbert ^b   Nicolini, Claudio ^a,c  

^a Fondazione ELBA Rome   (Italy)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AFM; Octopus photoreceptor membranes; Octopus rhodopsin; Photoreversibility; Photostability

Indexed keywords

AFM; OCTOPUS PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANES; OCTOPUS RHODOPSIN; PHOTOREVERSIBILITY; PHOTOSTABILITY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GELATION; GELS; OPERATING ROOMS; PHOTOCHROMISM;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

BIOMATERIAL; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION; FILM; GEL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL MEMBRANE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; OCTOPODIFORMES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 60349112739     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.31925     Document Type: Article

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