Article
Subdomains in the F and G helices of bacteriorhodopsin regulate the conformational transitions of the reprotonation mechanism.
Proteins - 1 Aug 2002
Martinez Lynell C, Thurmond Robin L, Jones Philip G, Turner George J
Abstract excerpt
We have performed cysteine scanning mutagenesis of the bacteriorhodopsin mutant D85N to explore the role of individual amino acids in the conformational transitions of the reprotonation mechanism. We have used whole-cell reflectance spectroscopy to evaluate the spectral properties of the 59 mutants generated during a scan of the entire F and G helices and the intervening loop region. Cys mutants were grouped into...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacteriorhodopsins
- Biological Transport
- Cysteine
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
- Lipid Metabolism
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Phenotype
