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Electric-field effects in dry films of D85N and D85,96N mutant bacteriorhodopsin.
Bioelectrochemistry (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Feb 2000
Kolodner P, Lukashev E P, Ching Y C
Abstract excerpt
In the D85N mutant of the protein bacteriorhodopsin (BR), the Schiff base, by which the retinal chromophore is bound to the protein, exhibits an abnormally low proton affinity (pKa approximately 8.9). Recent experiments on thin films of this protein have shown that this causes the protonation state of the Schiff base, and thus the visible absorption spectrum, to be sensitive to external electric fields. In this...
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