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Detection of fast light-activated H+ release and M intermediate formation from proteorhodopsin.
BMC physiology - 9 Apr 2002
Krebs Richard A, Alexiev Ulrike, Partha Ranga, DeVita Anne Marie, Braiman Mark S
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BACKGROUND: Proteorhodopsin (pR) is a light-activated proton pump homologous to bacteriorhodopsin and recently discovered in oceanic gamma-proteobacteria. One perplexing difference between these two proteins is the absence in pR of homologues of bR residues Glu-194 and Glu-204. These two residues, along with Arg-82, have been implicated in light-activated fast H+ release to the extracellular medium in bR. It is...
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