The synthesis of a seven-membered ring locked analogue of 11-cis-retinol, tethered to a cross-linking moiety on C-15 and a lysine-extended biotin on the C-3, was accomplished for its utilization as a probe to fish out retinol binding proteins that may be involved in the reisomerization of retinal from all-trans to 11-cis in the visual cycle.Key words: retinoids, biotin, 11-cis-locked, cross-linking, retinol binding proteins.
Identification of the endogenous retinoids associated with three cellular retinoid-binding proteins from bovine retina and retinal pigment epithelium.