Photopigment

September 3rd, 2008 by

Photopigments are unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change. The term is generally applied to the non-protein chromophore moiety of photosensitive chromoproteins, such as the pigments involved in photosynthesis and photoreception. In medical terminology, “photopigment” commonly refers to the photoreceptor proteins of the retina.
Contents

1 Photosynthetic pigments
2 Photoreceptor pigments
3 Photopigments of the vertebrate retina
4 See also

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