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Bacteriorhodopsin as a proton-pumping protein.
Akio Maeda
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Abstract
Known facts on the interactions of the protonated Schiff base portion of the retinal chromophore of bacteriorhodopsin with the charge-carrying residues of the protein, and their changes in the light-induced intermediates were summarized and discussed in terms of a possible mechanism of the proton transport. Structural differences from halorhodopsin, a chloride pump, were also taken into considerations.
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