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Rhodopsin Rotates in the Visual Receptor Membrane

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Dichroism can be photoinduced in a frog retina once it has been fixed with glutaraldehyde. This dichroism is absent in the normal retina because rhodopsin is free to undergo rotational Brownian motion.

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BROWN, P. Rhodopsin Rotates in the Visual Receptor Membrane. Nature New Biology 236, 35–38 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio236035a0

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