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SUBMITTER: Ghanbarpour A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7358036 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghanbarpour Alireza A Nairat Muath M Nosrati Meisam M Santos Elizabeth M EM Vasileiou Chrysoula C Dantus Marcos M Borhan Babak B Geiger James H JH
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20190114 4
Bacteriorhodopsin represents the simplest, and possibly most abundant, phototropic system requiring only a retinal-bound transmembrane protein to convert photons of light to an energy-generating proton gradient. The creation and interrogation of a microbial rhodopsin mimic, based on an orthogonal protein system, would illuminate the design elements required to generate new photoactive proteins with novel function. We describe a microbial rhodopsin mimic, created using a small soluble protein as ...[more]