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Abstract
Halorhodopsin, a light-driven halide pump, is the second archaeal rhodopsin involved in ion pumping to be studied at high resolution by X-ray crystallography. Like its cousin bacteriorhodopsin, halorhodopsin couples vectorial ion transport to the isomerisation state of a covalently linked retinal. Given the similarity and interconvertability of these two ion pumps, a unified mechanism for ion translocation by archaeal rhodopsins is now emerging.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12163076 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-440x(02)00356-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Struct Biol ISSN: 0959-440X Impact factor: 6.809