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Potential applications of bacteriorhodopsin mutants.
Bioengineered - 1 Jan 2000
Saeedi P, Moosaabadi J Mohammadian, Sebtahmadi S Sina, Mehrabadi J Fallah, Behmanesh M, Mekhilef S
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriorhodopsin (BR), a model system in biotechnology, is a G-protein dependent trans membrane protein which serves as a light driven proton pump in the cell membrane of Halobacterium salinarum. Due to the linkage of retinal to the protein, it seems colored and has numbers of versatile properties. As in vitro culture of the Halobacteria is very difficult, and isolation is time consuming and usually inefficient,...
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