Sensory and energy transduction: Light-activated retinal proteins
Sensory and energy transduction: Light-activated retinal proteins
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感觉和能量转导:光激活视网膜蛋白
作者:
L. Stryer
THE discovery of bacteriorhodopsin (BR), a light-driven proton pump found in halobacteria, revealed that the photoisomerization of retinal has a significance extending beyond its role in vision in higher organisms 1• Two more light-activated retinal proteins have recently been identified in halobacteria: halorhodopsin (HR), which serves as a chloride ion pump, and sensory rhodopsin (SR), which is the receptor for phototaxis. The genetics, chemistry, conformation, photoreactions and regulation of these halobacterial proteins were explored at at recent workshop*. Discussion of the proteins was enriched by comparing them with rhodopsin, the photoreceptor protein in the rod cells of vertebrate retinas. Reports of a phototaxis receptor in a eucaryotic green alga 2 and the three cone pigments mediating human colour vision contributed to the liveliness of the meeting. The lateral position of the retinal group of bacteriorhodopsin has been investigated by neutron diffraction of membranes containing hydrogenated or specifically deuterated retinal (NA Dench er, Berlin). Peaks in neutron difference maps fit nicely with the proposed position of the C-terminal helix, which contains lysine 216, the residue joined to retinal by a protonated Schiff base linkage (R. Henderson, MRC Cambridge). X-ray and electron diffraction patterns of M412, the deprotonated species in the protonpumping photocycle, are very similar to those of protonated BR. The extent of structural change corresponds to a movement of one or two amino acid residues by a distance of about 4 A. A rotation or tilting of an entire helix is excluded by these data. The configurations of key bonds in the retinal group of bacteriorhodopsin attracted much interest. Resonance Raman spectroscopy and solid-state 13C-NMR have provided a wealth of information concerning the precise structural changes of the chromophore during the photocycle 3.4. Theoretical calculations indicate that rotation about the Cl4-Cl5 single bond is severely hindered in the protonated state. This single bond is thought to be essentially free in the unprotonated state, as well as in a protonated state, with a negative counter-ion near the Schiff base nitrogen (K. Schulten, Munich). Rotation about the Cl4-C15 bond may be an important gating mechanism in proton pumping by bacteriorhodopsin. Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy has shown that several carboxylates undergo
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.79.20.6250
发表时间:
1982-01-01
期刊:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
影响因子:
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作者:
BOGOMOLNI, RA;SPUDICH, JL
通讯作者:
SPUDICH, JL
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.79.14.4308
发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Spudich,EN;Spudich,JL
通讯作者:
Spudich,JL
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.81.6.1706
发表时间:
1984-01-01
期刊:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
影响因子:
--
作者:
HARBISON, GS;SMITH, SO;GRIFFIN, RG
通讯作者:
GRIFFIN, RG