PubMed · 3149298
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K Vogt. 1988. Naming visual pigments.. https://doi.org/10.1016/1011-1344(88)85042-5
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While azulenic retinal analogs failed to yield a red-shifted visual pigment analog, the 9-cis isomers of the push-pull polyenals 3-methoxy-3-dehydroretinal and 14F-3-methoxy-3-dehydroretinal yielded iodopsin pigment analogs with absorption maxima at, respectively, 663 and 720 nm. The former gave a relatively stable batho product (700 nm) and was able to activate transducin. A lower activity was observed for the latter. One possible explanation for the combined results is that the excitation energies of these red-shifted pigments are approaching the threshold energy for visual transduction (although at this time we cannot rigorously exclude a role of the added F-atom in reducing the transducin activity).
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