Pressure effects on the photocycle of purple membrane.
Pressure effects on the photocycle of purple membrane.
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压力对紫色膜光循环的影响。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00318a027
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发表时间:
1984
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Eisenstein,L
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作者:
Marque,J;Eisenstein,L
Jeffrey Marque and Laura Eisenstein* abstract: We studied the effects of hydrostatic pressure on the kinetics of the photocycle of purple membrane from Halobacterium halobium. The data were interpreted in terms of a unidirectional and unbranched model. We found that all of the distinct processes of the photocycle are retarded by pressure, with the earlier, fast processes showing less sensitivity to pressure than thelater, slow processes. Thequalitative similarity of these results with the effects of solvent viscosity on the photocycle kinetics suggests that the primary effects of pressure on the kinetics are via the intrinsic viscosity of theJRirple membrane is the light-driven proton pump found in the cell membrane of Halobacterium halobium. Purple membrane contains a single protein, bacteriorhodopsin (bR). 1 The chromophore in bR is a molecule of retinal covalently bound to a lysine residue (Lys-216) via a protonated Schiff base linkage. Purple membrane functions by absorbing visible radiation and using the energy to pump protons from the inside to the outside of the bacterial cell, thus generating a transmembrane electrochemical gradient. The bacterium is able to couple the relaxation of the gradient, elsewhere on the cell membrane, to the phosphorylation of adenosine S'-diphosphate. Purple membrane thus enables thebacterium to generate adenosine S'-triphosphate (ATP) in the absence of oxygen and thereby survive in anaerobic environments. Associated with the movement of protons across the purple membrane are complicated color changes in the purple mem-brane. These color changes are collectively referred to as the purple membrane photocycle, or bacteriorhodopsin photocycle (Lozier et al., 1975). The photocycle is not a well-defined concept; different workers have different opinions as to the number of intermediates and to the reactions between those intermediates. In the literature, one finds an entire gamut of phenomenological models for thephotocycle, from the simple sequential model, bR*~·-*·