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A halorhodopsin-overproducing mutant isolated from an extremely haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis.
FEBS letters - 20 Aug 2008
Ihara Kunio, Narusawa Akihiro, Maruyama Keita, Takeguchi Masashi, Kouyama Tsutomu
Abstract excerpt
The halorhodopsin (hR)-overproducing mutant strain KM-1 was isolated from the extremely haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis type strain DSM2160(T). hR-enriched membranes were easily obtained by washing the cells with distilled water. The membranes were claret colored owing to two pigments: hR and bacterioruberin. The hR component in the absorption spectra changed from blue to purple upon the addition...
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