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SUBMITTER: Kim K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999514 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160824
A novel light-driven chloride-pumping rhodopsin (ClR) containing an 'NTQ motif' in its putative ion conduction pathway has been discovered and functionally characterized in a genomic analysis study of a marine bacterium. Here we report the crystal structure of ClR from the flavobacterium Nonlabens marinus S1-08(T) determined under two conditions at 2.0 and 1.56 Å resolutions. The structures reveal two chloride-binding sites, one around the protonated Schiff base and the other on a cytoplasmic lo ...[more]