Author:
Zeiger Joel,Goldsmith Timothy H.
Abstract
AbstractThe distribution of 3-dehydroretinal (Ral2) in dorsal, middle, and ventral slices of eyes of the crayfishProcambarus clarkiiwas examined by HPLC. No pronounced differences were found. Similar results were obtained when the eyes were cut into anterior, intermediate, and posterior portions.Dichroic difference spectra were measured in single halves of microvillar layers of isolated rhabdoms and the proportions of rhodopsin (P1) and porphyropsin (P2) estimated by comparison with computer-generated mixtures of these pigments, whose spectra are known from previous work. The fraction of visual pigment that is porphyropsin appears to be uniform throughout individual retinular cells and among the retinular cells of individual rhabdoms, but various substantially among different rhabdoms from the same eye.The interommatidial variation in the amount of P2greatly exceeds the gross regional variation in Ral2. This means there is an intermingling of ommatidia with different levels of P2. The variability in P2among ommatidia is not likely to have important implications for the vision of the crayfish but suggests that in the metabolism of retinoids, individual ommatidia are quasi-independent metabolic units. The results are compatible with a single opsin for both crayfish rhodopsin and porphyropsin.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sensory Systems,Physiology
Cited by
4 articles.
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