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Proteorhodopsin genes are distributed among divergent marine bacterial taxa.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Oct 2003
de la Torre José R, Christianson Lynne M, Béjà Oded, Suzuki Marcelino T, Karl David M, Heidelberg John, DeLong Edward F
Abstract excerpt
Proteorhodopsin (PR) is a retinal-binding bacterial integral membrane protein that functions as a light-driven proton pump. The gene encoding this photoprotein was originally discovered on a large genome fragment derived from an uncultured marine gamma-proteobacterium of the SAR86 group. Subsequently, many variants of the PR gene have been detected in marine plankton, via PCR-based gene surveys. It has not been...
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