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An amino acid residue (S201) in the retinal binding pocket regulates the photoreaction pathway of phoborhodopsin.
Biochemistry - 23 Aug 2011
Dai Gang, Zhang Yu, Tamogami Jun, Demura Makoto, Kamo Naoki, Kandori Hideki, Iwasa Tatsuo
Abstract excerpt
Phoborhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarum (salinarum phoborhodopsin, spR also called HsSR II) is a photoreceptor for the negative phototaxis of the bacterium. A unique feature of spR is the formation of a shorter wavelength photoproduct, P480, observed at liquid nitrogen temperature beside the K intermediate. Formation of similar photoproduct has not been reported in the other microbial rhodopsins. This...
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