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SUBMITTER: Inoue K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7606678 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of biological chemistry 20201001 44
The versatile microbial rhodopsin family performs a variety of biological tasks using a highly conserved architecture, making it difficult to understand the mechanistic basis for different functions. Besaw <i>et al.</i> now report structures of a recently discovered cyanobacterial Cl<sup>-</sup>-pumping rhodopsin and its functionally divergent mutant that reveal how these transmembrane proteins create a gradient of activity with subtle changes. These insights are paralleled by a second recent re ...[more]