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Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology.
Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR - 1 Dec 2016
Pinhassi Jarone, DeLong Edward F, Béjà Oded, González José M, Pedrós-Alió Carlos
Abstract excerpt
The recognition of a new family of rhodopsins in marine planktonic bacteria, proton-pumping proteorhodopsin, expanded the known phylogenetic range, environmental distribution, and sequence diversity of retinylidene photoproteins. At the time of this discovery, microbial ion-pumping rhodopsins were known solely in haloarchaea inhabiting extreme hypersaline environments. Shortly thereafter, proteorhodopsins and...
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