Importance of alanine at position 178 in proteorhodopsin for absorption of prevalent ambient light in the marine environment.
Yamada K, Kawanabe A, Kandori H.
Yamada K, et al. Among authors: kandori h.
Biochemistry. 2010 Mar 23;49(11):2416-23. doi: 10.1021/bi9020204.
Biochemistry. 2010.
PMID: 20170125
However, we recently found that replacement of Ala178 with Arg in the E-F loop of proteorhodopsin (PR), an archaeal-type rhodopsin in marine bacteria, shifts the lambda(max) from 525 to 545 nm at neutral pH [Yoshitsugu, M., Shibata, M., Ikeda, D., Furutani, Y., and Kandori …
However, we recently found that replacement of Ala178 with Arg in the E-F loop of proteorhodopsin (PR), an archaeal-type rhodopsin in marine …