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SUBMITTER: Hasemi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4697170 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of biological chemistry 20151117 1
Light-driven ion-pumping rhodopsins are widely distributed in microorganisms and are now classified into the categories of outward H(+) and Na(+) pumps and an inward Cl(-) pump. These different types share a common protein architecture and utilize the photoisomerization of the same chromophore, retinal, to evoke photoreactions. Despite these similarities, successful pump-to-pump conversion had been confined to only the H(+) pump bacteriorhodopsin, which was converted to a Cl(-) pump in 1995 by a ...[more]