Article
Sensitivity of the retinal circular dichroism of bacteriorhodopsin to the mutagenetic single substitution of amino acids: tyrosine.
FEBS letters - 26 Mar 1990
Du J J, el-Sayed M A, Stern L J, Mogi T, Khorana H G
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in the native purple membrane, in wild type expressed in E. coli and reconstituted in lipid vesicles, and its constituted mutants with substitutions of Tyr-185 by Phe all are found to have different visible retinal CD spectra. The results strongly suggest that the environment of the retinal in bR determines the sign and heterogeneity of its visible retinal CD spectrum. This supports the...
Topics
- Bacteriorhodopsins
- Binding Sites
- Circular Dichroism
- DNA, Recombinant
- Escherichia coli
- Halobacterium
- Mutation
- Protein Conformation
- Tyrosine
