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Effect of genetic modification of tyrosine-185 on the proton pump and the blue-to-purple transition in bacteriorhodopsin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Jun 1990
Jang D J, el-Sayed M A, Stern L J, Mogi T, Khorana H G
Abstract excerpt
The retinylidene chromophore mutant (Y185F) of bacteriorhodopsin, in which Tyr-185 is substituted by phenylalanine, is examined and compared with wild-type bacteriorhodopsin expressed in Escherichia coli; both were reinstituted similarly in vesicles. The Y185F mutant shows (at least) two distinct spectra at neutral pH. Upon light absorption, the blue species (which absorbs in the red) behaves as if "dead"--i.e.,...
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