This article is about the chemical compound. For the light-sensitive eye tissue, see Retina.
Not to be confused with Retinol.
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IUPAC name
(2E,4E,6E,8E)-3,7-Dimethyl-9-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexen-1-yl)nona-2,4,6,8-tetraenal
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Other names
retinaldehyde; vitamin A aldehyde; RAL
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| Identifiers |
| CAS number |
116-31-4 Y |
| PubChem |
1070 |
| UNII |
RR725D715M Y |
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CC1=C(C(CCC1)(C)C)/C=C/C(=C/C=C/C(=C/C=O)/C)/C
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| Properties |
| Molecular formula |
C20H28O |
| Molar mass |
284.44 g mol−1 |
| Appearance |
Orange crystals from petroleum ether[1] |
| Melting point |
61-64 °C[1] |
| Solubility in water |
Nearly insoluble |
| Solubility in fat |
Soluble |
| Related compounds |
| Related compounds |
retinol; retinoic acid; beta-carotene; dehydroretinal; 3-hydroxyretinal; 4-hydroxyretinal |
| Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa) |
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Retinal, also called retinaldehyde or vitamin A aldehyde, is one of the many forms of vitamin A (the number of which varies from species to species). Retinal is a polyene chromophore, bound to proteins called opsins, and is the chemical basis of animal vision. Bound to proteins called type 1 rhodopsins, retinal allows certain microorganisms to convert light into metabolic energy.
Vertebrate animals ingest retinal directly from meat, or produce retinal from one of two carotenes (α-carotene, β-carotene), and also from another type of carotenoid known as β-cryptoxanthin, a type of xanthophyll, these must be obtained from plants or other photosynthetic organisms. No other carotenoids can be converted by animals to retinal, and some carnivores cannot convert any carotenoids at all. The other main forms of vitamin A, retinol, and a partially active form, retinoic acid, may both be produced from retinal.
Invertebrates such as insects and squid use hydroxylated forms of retinal in their visual systems, which derive from conversion from other xanthophylls.
Contents
- 1 Vitamin A metabolism
- 2 Vision
- 2.1 Opsins
- 2.2 Visual cycle
- 3 Type 1 rhodopsins
- 4 History
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 Further reading
- 8 External links
Vitamin A metabolism
Living organisms produce retinal (RAL) by irreversible oxidative cleavage of carotenoids.[2] For example
- beta-carotene + O2 → 2 retinal
catalyzed by a beta-carotene 15,15'-monooxygenase[3] or a beta-carotene 15,15'-dioxygenase.[4] Just as carotenoids are the precursors of retinal, retinal is the precursor of the other forms of vitamin A. Retinal is interconvertible with retinol (ROL), the transport and storage form of vitamin A
- retinal + NADPH + H+ retinol + NADP+
- retinol + NAD+ retinal + NADH + H+
catalyzed by retinol dehydrogenases (RDHs)[5] and alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs).[6] Retinol is called vitamin A alcohol, or more often, simply vitamin A. Retinal can also be oxidized to retinoic acid (RA)
- retinal + NAD+ + H2O → retinoic acid + NADH + H+ (catalyzed by RALDH)
- retinal + O2 + H2O → retinoic acid + H2O2 (catalyzed by retinal oxidase)
catalyzed by retinal dehydrogenases[7] also known as retinaldehyde dehydrogenases (RALDHs)[6] as well as retinal oxidases.[8] Retinoic acid, sometimes called vitamin A acid, is an important signaling molecule and hormone in vertebrate animals.
Vision
Vision begins with the photoisomerization of retinal. When the 11-cis-retinal chromophore absorbs a photon it isomerizes from the 11-cis state to the all-trans state. The absorbance spectrum of the chromophore depends on its interactions with the opsin protein to which it is bound; different opsins produce different absorbance spectra.
Opsins
Opsins are proteins and the retinal-binding visual pigments found in the photoreceptor cells in the retinas of eyes. An opsin is arranged into a bundle of seven transmembrane alpha-helices connected by six loops. In rod cells the opsin molecules are embedded in the membranes of the disks which are entirely inside of the cell. The N-terminus head of the molecule extends into the interior of the disk, and the C-terminus tail extends into the cytoplasm of the cell. In cone cells the disks are defined by the cell's plasma membrane so that the N-terminus head extends outside of the cell. Retinal binds covalently to a lysine on the transmembrane helix nearest the C-terminus of the protein through a Schiff base linkage. Formation of the Schiff base linkage involves removing the oxygen atom from retinal and two hydrogen atoms from the free amino group of lysine, giving H2O. Retinylidene is the divalent group formed by removing the oxygen atom from retinal, and so opsins have been called retinylidene proteins.
Opsins are prototypical G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).[9] Bovine rhodopsin, the opsin of the rod cells of cattle, was the first GPCR to have its X-ray structure determined.[10] Bovine rhodopsin contains 348 amino acid residues. The retinal chromophore binds at Lys296.
Although mammals use retinal exclusively as the opsin chromophore, other groups of animals additionally use four chromophores closely related to retinal. These are 3,4-didehydroretinal, (3R)-3-hydroxyretinal, (3S)-3-hydroxyretinal, and (4R)-4-hydroxyretinal. Many fish and amphibians use 3,4-didehydroretinal, also called dehydroretinal. With the exception of the dipteran suborder Cyclorrhapha, the so-called higher flies, all insects examined use the (R)-enantiomer of 3-hydroxyretinal. The (R)-enantiomer is to be expected if 3-hydroxyretinal is produced directly from xanthophyll carotenoids. Cyclorrhaphans, including Drosophila, use (3S)-3-hydroxyretinal.[11][12] Firefly squid have been found to use (4R)-4-hydroxyretinal.
Visual cycle
The visual cycle is a circular enzymatic pathway, which is the front-end of phototransduction. It regenerates 11-cis-retinal. For example, the visual cycle of mammalian rod cells is as follows:
- all-trans-retinyl ester + H2O → 11-cis-retinol + fatty acid; RPE65 isomerohydrolases,[13]
- 11-cis-retinol + NAD+ → 11-cis-retinal + NADH + H+; 11-cis-retinol dehydrogenases,
- 11-cis-retinal + aporhodopsin → rhodopsin + H2O; forms Schiff base linkage to lysine, -CH=N+H-,
- rhodopsin + hν → metarhodopsin II; 11-cis photoisomerizes to all-trans,
- rhodopsin + hν → photorhodopsin → bathorhodopsin → lumirhodopsin → metarhodopsin I → metarhodopsin II,
- metarhodopsin II + H2O → aporhodopsin + all-trans-retinal,
- all-trans-retinal + NADPH + H+ → all-trans-retinol + NADP+; all-trans-retinol dehydrogenases,
- all-trans-retinol + fatty acid → all-trans-retinyl ester + H2O; lecithin retinol acyltransferases (LRATs).[14]
Steps 3,4,5,6 occur in rod cell outer segments; Steps 1, 2, and 7 occur in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells.
Type 2 rhodopsin (rainbow colored) embedded in a lipid bilayer (heads red and tails blue) with transducin below it. G
tα is colored red, G
tβ blue, and G
tγ yellow. There is a bound GDP molecule in the G
tα-subunit and a bound
retinal (black) in the rhodopsin. The N-terminus terminus of rhodopsin is red and the C-terminus blue. Anchoring of transducin to the membrane has been drawn in black.
RPE65 isomerohydrolases are homologous with beta-carotene monooxygenases;[2] the homologous ninaB enzyme in Drosophila has both retinal-forming carotenoid-oxygenase activity and all-trans to 11-cis isomerase activity.[15]
Type 1 rhodopsins
All-trans-retinal is also an essential component of type I, or microbial, opsins such as bacteriorhodopsin, channelrhodopsin, and halorhodopsin. In these molecules, light causes the all-trans-retinal to become 13-cis retinal,[16] which then cycles back to all-trans-retinal in the dark state.
History
The American biochemist George Wald and others had outlined the visual cycle by 1958. For his work, Wald won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.[17]
See also
- Visual phototransduction
- Visual perception
- Sensory system
- Purple Earth hypothesis
References
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- ^ a b von Lintig, Johannes; Vogt, Klaus (2000). "Filling the Gap in Vitamin A Research: Molecular Identification of An Enzyme Cleaving Beta-carotene to Retinal". Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB) 275 (16): 11915–11920. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.16.11915. PMID 10766819.
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- ^ "KEGG ENZYME: 1.2.3.11 retinal oxidase". Retrieved 2009-03-10.
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- ^ Jin, Minghao; Yuan, Quan; Li, Songhua; Travis, Gabriel H. (2007). "Role of LRAT on the Retinoid Isomerase Activity and Membrane Association of Rpe65". Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB) 282 (29): 20915–20924. doi:10.1074/jbc.M701432200. PMC 2747659. PMID 17504753.
- ^ Oberhauser, Vitus; Voolstra, Olaf; Bangert, Annette; von Lintig, Johannes; Vogt, Klaus (2008). "NinaB combines carotenoid oxygenase and retinoid isomerase activity in a single polypeptide". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (48): 19000–5. Bibcode:2008PNAS..10519000O. doi:10.1073/pnas.0807805105. PMC 2596218. PMID 19020100.
- ^ Chen, De-Liang; Wang, Guang-yu; Xu, Bing; Hu, Kun-Sheng (2002). "All-trans to 13-cis retinal isomerization in light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin at acidic pH". Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 66 (3): 188. doi:10.1016/S1011-1344(02)00245-2.
- ^ 1967 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Further reading
- Prado-Cabrero, Alfonso; Scherzinger, Daniel; Avalos, Javier; Al-Babili, Salim (2007). "Retinal Biosynthesis in Fungi: Characterization of the Carotenoid Oxygenase CarX from Fusarium fujikuroi". Eukaryotic Cell (American Society for Microbiology) 6 (4): 650–657. doi:10.1128/EC.00392-06. PMC 1865656. PMID 17293483.
- Kloer, Daniel P.; Ruch, Sandra; Al-Babili, Salim; Beyer, Peter; Schulz, Georg E. (2005). "The Structure of a Retinal-Forming Carotenoid Oxygenase". Science (AAAS) 308 (5719): 267–269. Bibcode:2005Sci...308..267K. doi:10.1126/science.1108965. PMID 15821095.
- Schmidt, Holger; Kurtzer, Robert; Eisenreich, Wolfgang; Schwab, Wilfried (2006). "The Carotenase AtCCD1 from Arabidopsis thaliana Is a Dioxygenase". Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB) 281 (15): 9845–9851. doi:10.1074/jbc.M511668200. PMID 16459333.
- Wang, Tao; Jiao, Yuchen; Montell, Craig (2007). "Dissection of the pathway required for generation of vitamin A and for Drosophila phototransduction". Journal of Cell Biology (Rockefeller University Press) 177 (2): 305–316. doi:10.1083/jcb.200610081. PMC 2064138. PMID 17452532.
- Wald, George (1967). "Nobel Lecture: The Molecular Basis of Visual Excitation". Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- Fernald, Russell D. (2006). "Casting a Genetic Light on the Evolution of Eyes". Science (AAAS) 313 (5795): 1914–1918. Bibcode:2006Sci...313.1914F. doi:10.1126/science.1127889. PMID 17008522.
- Briggs, Winslow R.; Spudich, John L., eds. (2005). Handbook of Photosensory Receptors. Wiley. ISBN 978-3-527-31019-7.
- Baylor, D A; Lamb, T D; Yau, K W (1979). "Responses of retinal rods to single photons". Journal of Physiology (Physiological Society) 288: 613–634. PMC 1281447. PMID 112243.
- Hecht, Selig; Shlaer, Simon; Pirenne, Maurice Henri (1942). "ENERGY, QUANTA, AND VISION". Journal of General Physiology (Rockefeller University Press) 25 (6): 819–840. doi:10.1085/jgp.25.6.819. PMC 2142545. PMID 19873316. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- Barlow, H.B.; Levick, W.R.; Yoon, M. (1971). "Responses to single quanta of light in retinal ganglion cells of the cat". Vision Research (Elsevier) 11 (Supplement 3): 87–101. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(71)90033-2. PMID 5293890.
- Venter, J. Craig; et al., K; Heidelberg, JF; Halpern, AL; Rusch, D; Eisen, JA; Wu, D; Paulsen, I et al. (2004). "Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea". Science (AAAS) 304 (5667): 66–74. Bibcode:2004Sci...304...66V. doi:10.1126/science.1093857. PMID 15001713. The oceans are full of type 1 rhodopsin.
- Waschuk, Stephen A.; Bezerra, Arandi G.; Shi, Lichi; Brown, Leonid S. (2005). "Leptosphaeria rhodopsin: Bacteriorhodopsin-like proton pump from a eukaryote". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (19): 6879–6883. Bibcode:2005PNAS..102.6879W. doi:10.1073/pnas.0409659102. PMC 1100770. PMID 15860584.
- Su, Chih-Ying; Luo, Dong-Gen; Terakita, Akihisa; Shichida, Yoshinori; Liao, Hsi-Wen; Kazmi, Manija A.; Sakmar, Thomas P.; Yau, King-Wai (2006). "Parietal-Eye Phototransduction Components and Their Potential Evolutionary Implications". Science (AAAS) 311 (5767): 1617–1621. Bibcode:2006Sci...311.1617S. doi:10.1126/science.1123802. PMID 16543463.
- Luo, Dong-Gen; Xue, Tian; Yau, King-Wai (2008). "How vision begins: An odyssey". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (29): 9855–9862. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.9855L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0708405105. PMC 2481352. PMID 18632568. Good historical review.
- Schäfer, Günter; Engelhard, Martin; Müller, Volker (1999). "Bioenergetics of the Archaea". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (American Society for Microbiology) 63 (3): 570–620. PMC 103747. PMID 10477309.
- Fan, Jie; Woodruff, Michael L; Cilluffo, Marianne C; Crouch, Rosalie K; Fain, Gordon L (2005). "Opsin activation of transduction in the rods of dark-reared Rpe65 knockout mice". Journal of Physiology (Physiological Society) 568 (1): 83–95. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2005.091942. PMC 1474752. PMID 15994181.
- Sadekar, Sumedha; Raymond, Jason; Blankenship, Robert E. (2006). "Conservation of Distantly Related Membrane Proteins: Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Share a Common Structural Core". Molecular Biology and Evolution (Oxford University Press) 23 (11): 2001–2007. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl079. PMID 16887904.
- Yokoyama, Shozo; Radlwimmer, F. Bernhard (2001). "The molecular genetics and evolution of red and green color vision in vertebrates". Genetics (Genetics Society of America) 158 (4): 1697–1710. PMC 1461741. PMID 11545071.
- Racker, Efraim; Stoeckenius, Walther (1974). "Reconstitution of Purple Membrane Vesicles Catalyzing Light-driven Proton Uptake and Adenosine Triphosphate Formation". Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB) 249 (2): 662–663. PMID 4272126.
- Kawaguchi, Riki; Yu, Jiamei; Honda, Jane; Hu, Jane; Whitelegge, Julian; Ping, Peipei; Wiita, Patrick; Bok, Dean; Sun, Hui (2007). "A Membrane Receptor for Retinol Binding Protein Mediates Cellular Uptake of Vitamin A". Science (AAAS) 315 (5813): 820–825. Bibcode:2007Sci...315..820K. doi:10.1126/science.1136244. PMID 17255476.
- Amora, Tabitha L.; Ramos, Lavoisier S.; Galan, Jhenny F.; Birge, Robert R. (2008). "Spectral Tuning of Deep Red Cone Pigments". NIH Public Access Author Manuscript 47 (16): 4614–20. doi:10.1021/bi702069d. PMC 2492582. PMID 18370404.
- Send, Robert; Sundholm, Dage (2007). "Stairway to the conical intersection: A computational study of retinal isomerization". Journal of Physical Chemistry A (American Chemical Society) 111 (36): 8766–8773. doi:10.1021/jp073908l. PMID 17713894.
- Salom, David; Lodowski, David T.; Stenkamp, Ronald E.; Le Trong, Isolde; Golczak, Marcin; Jastrzebska, Beata; Harris, Tim; Ballesteros, Juan A.; Palczewski, Krzysztof (2006). "Crystal structure of a photoactivated deprotonated intermediate of rhodopsin". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (44): 16123–16128. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10316123S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608022103. PMC 1637547. PMID 17060607.
External links
- First Steps of Vision - National Health Museum
- Vision and Light-Induced Molecular Changes
- Retinal Anatomy and Visual Capacities
- Retinal
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Carotenoids
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| Carotenes (C40) |
- α-Carotene
- β-Carotene
- γ-Carotene
- δ-Carotene
- ε-Carotene
- ζ-Carotene
- Lycopene
- Neurosporene
- Phytoene
- Phytofluene
- Torulene
- Lycopersene
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| Xanthophylls (C40) |
- Antheraxanthin
- Astaxanthin
- Canthaxanthin
- Citranaxanthin
- Cryptoxanthin
- Diadinoxanthin
- Diatoxanthin
- Dinoxanthin
- Flavoxanthin
- Fucoxanthin
- Lutein
- Neoxanthin
- Rhodoxanthin
- Rubixanthin
- Violaxanthin
- Zeaxanthin
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| Apocarotenoids (C<40) |
- Abscisic acid
- Apocarotenal
- Bixin
- Crocetin
- Food orange 7
- Ionones
- Peridinin
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| Vitamin A retinoids (C20) |
- Retinal
- Retinoic acid
- Retinol
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| Retinoid drugs |
- Acitretin
- Alitretinoin
- Bexarotene
- Etretinate
- Fenretinide
- Isotretinoin
- Tazarotene
- Tretinoin
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