Photoreactions of bacteriorhodopsin at acid pH
Journal Article
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· Biophysical Journal; (USA)
- Univ. of California, Irvine (USA)
It has been known that bacteriorhodopsin, the retinal protein in purple membrane which functions as a light-driven proton pump, undergoes reversible spectroscopic changes at acid pH. The absorption spectra of various bacteriorhodopsin species were estimated from measured spectra of the mixtures that form at low pH, in the presence of sulfate and chloride. The dependency of these on pH and the concentration of Cl- fit a model in which progressive protonation of purple membrane produces blue membrane, which will bind, with increasing affinity as the pH is lowered, chloride ions to produce acid purple membrane. Transient spectroscopy with a multichannel analyzer identified the intermediates of the photocycles of these altered pigments, and described their kinetics. Blue membrane produced red-shifted KL-like and L-like products, but no other photointermediates, consistent with earlier suggestions. Unlike others, however, we found that acid purple membrane exhibited a very different photocycle: its first detected intermediate was not like KL in that it was much more red-shifted, and the only other intermediate detectable resembled the O species of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. An M-like intermediate, with a deprotonated Schiff base, was not found in either of these photocycles. There are remarkable similarities between the photoreactions of the acid forms of bacteriorhodopsin and the chloride transport system halorhodopsin, where the Schiff base deprotonation seems to be prevented by lack of suitable aspartate residues, rather than by low pH.
- OSTI ID:
- 7192284
- Journal Information:
- Biophysical Journal; (USA), Journal Name: Biophysical Journal; (USA) Vol. 56:6; ISSN 0006-3495; ISSN BIOJA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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