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Aspartate-histidine interaction in the retinal schiff base counterion of the light-driven proton pump of Exiguobacterium sibiricum.
Biochemistry - 24 Jul 2012
Balashov S P, Petrovskaya L E, Lukashev E P, Imasheva E S, Dioumaev A K, Wang J M, Sychev S V, Dolgikh D A, Rubin A B, Kirpichnikov M P, Lanyi J K
Abstract excerpt
One of the distinctive features of eubacterial retinal-based proton pumps, proteorhodopsins, xanthorhodopsin, and others, is hydrogen bonding of the key aspartate residue, the counterion to the retinal Schiff base, to a histidine. We describe properties of the recently found eubacterium proton pump from Exiguobacterium sibiricum (named ESR) expressed in Escherichia coli, especially features that depend on Asp-His...
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