Bioenergetic role of halorhodopsin in Halobacterium halobium cells
Bioenergetic role of halorhodopsin in Halobacterium halobium cells
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盐视紫红质在盐杆菌细胞中的生物能作用
DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(81)80399-7
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发表时间:
1981
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
J. Lanyi
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作者:
G. Wagner;D. Oesterhelt;G. Krippahl;J. Lanyi
Bioenergetic functions in the membranes of Halobacterium halobium depend on respiration in the dark, and on two retinal pigments during illumination. The better known of these is bacteriorhodopsin [l], which is found in crystalline arrays (patches) covering as much as 50% of the cell surface. Bacteriorhodopsin is a light-dependent pump for protons, and it has been proposed [2-4] that the pH difference and particularly the electrical potential, which is created during illumination by proton extrusion across the cytoplasmic membrane, is the energizing folce for ATP synthesis. Illumination will indeed support the growth of bacteriorhodopsin-containing H. halobium under strictly anaerobic conditions [5].The second retinal pigment, present in smaller amounts in the halobacteria, is halorhodopsin. This pigment is a light-driven electrogenic pump for Na÷[6-8], and its spectral characteristics are somewhat different [9, 10] from those of bacteriorhodopsin. The presence of this pump is most easily recognized in cell envelope vesicles prepared from H. halobium strains lacking bacteriorhodopsin. Illumination of such vesicles results in uncoupler-facilitated passive proton uptake until a pH difference (acid inside) is balanced by a membrane potential (negative inside), so that the protonmotive force is zero [8]. Appropriately prepared vesicles from wild-type, bacteriorhodopsin-containing cells show both active and passive proton movements upon illumination [7, 8], the former appearing as efflux, the latter as influx. Proton conductors will tend to suppress proton efflux but enhance the influx. It appears therefore, that when present, both pumps are oriented in the outward direction in Abbreviations: CCCP, carbonyl cyanide metachlorophenyl-