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SUBMITTER: Baliga NS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC137519 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baliga Nitin S NS Pan Min M Goo Young Ah YA Yi Eugene C EC Goodlett David R DR Dimitrov Krassen K Shannon Paul P Aebersold Ruedi R Ng Wailap Victor WV Hood Leroy L
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021028 23
The extremely halophilic archaeon Halobacterium NRC-1 can switch from aerobic energy production (energy from organic compounds) to anaerobic phototrophy (energy from light) by induction of purple membrane biogenesis. The purple membrane is made up of multiple copies of a 1:1 complex of bacterioopsin (Bop) and retinal called bacteriorhodopsin that functions as a light-driven proton pump. A light- and redox-sensing transcription regulator, Bat, regulates critical genes encoding the biogenesis of t ...[more]