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A Light-Driven Integrated Bio-Capacitor with Single Nano-Channel Modulation. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12040592. [PMID: 35214920 PMCID: PMC8879685 DOI: 10.3390/nano12040592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bioelectronics, an emerging discipline formed by the biology and electronic information disciplines, has maintained a state of rapid development since its birth. Amongst the various functional bioelectronics materials, bacteriorhodopsin (bR), with its directional proton pump function and favorable structural stability properties, has drawn wide attention. The main contents of the paper are as follows: Inspired by the capacitive properties of natural protoplast cell membranes, a new bio-capacitor based on bR and artificial nanochannels was constructed. As a point of innovation, microfluidic chips were integrated into our device as an ion transport channel, which made the bio-capacitor more stable. Meanwhile, a single nanopore structure was integrated to improve the accuracy of the device structure. Experiments observed that the size of the nanopore affected the ion transmission rate. Consequently, by making the single nanopore’s size change, the photocurrent duration time (PDT) of bR was effectively regulated. By using this specific phenomenon, the original transient photocurrent was successfully transformed into a square-like wave.
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Inoue K. Diversity, Mechanism, and Optogenetic Application of Light-Driven Ion Pump Rhodopsins. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2021; 1293:89-126. [PMID: 33398809 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8763-4_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Ion-transporting microbial rhodopsins are widely used as major molecular tools in optogenetics. They are categorized into light-gated ion channels and light-driven ion pumps. While the former passively transport various types of cations and anions in a light-dependent manner, light-driven ion pumps actively transport specific ions, such as H+, Na+, Cl-, against electrophysiological potential by using light energy. Since the ion transport by these pumps induces hyperpolarization of membrane potential and inhibit neural firing, light-driven ion-pumping rhodopsins are mostly applied as inhibitory optogenetics tools. Recent progress in genome and metagenome sequencing identified more than several thousands of ion-pumping rhodopsins from a wide variety of microbes, and functional characterization studies has been revealing many new types of light-driven ion pumps one after another. Since light-gated channels were reviewed in other chapters in this book, here the rapid progress in functional characterization, molecular mechanism study, and optogenetic application of ion-pumping rhodopsins were reviewed.
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- Keiichi Inoue
- The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan.
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan.
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Li YT, Tian Y, Tian H, Tu T, Gou GY, Wang Q, Qiao YC, Yang Y, Ren TL. A Review on Bacteriorhodopsin-Based Bioelectronic Devices. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2018; 18:E1368. [PMID: 29702621 PMCID: PMC5982678 DOI: 10.3390/s18051368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Revised: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin protein extracted from Halobacterium salinarum is widely used in many biohybrid electronic devices and forms a research subject known as bioelectronics, which merges biology with electronic technique. The specific molecule structure and components of bR lead to its unique photocycle characteristic, which consists of several intermediates (bR, K, L, M, N, and O) and results in proton pump function. In this review, working principles and properties of bacteriorhodopsin are briefly introduced, as well as bR layer preparation method. After that, different bR-based devices divided into photochemical and photoelectric applications are shown. Finally, outlook and conclusions are drawn to inspire new design of high-performance bR-based biohybrid electronic devices.
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- Yu-Tao Li
- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Lin JY, Knutsen PM, Muller A, Kleinfeld D, Tsien RY. ReaChR: a red-shifted variant of channelrhodopsin enables deep transcranial optogenetic excitation. Nat Neurosci 2013; 16:1499-508. [PMID: 23995068 PMCID: PMC3793847 DOI: 10.1038/nn.3502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 531] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Channelrhodopsins (ChRs) are used to optogenetically depolarize neurons. We engineered a variant of ChR, denoted red-activatable ChR (ReaChR), that is optimally excited with orange to red light (λ ∼590-630 nm) and offers improved membrane trafficking, higher photocurrents and faster kinetics compared to existing red-shifted ChRs. Red light is less scattered by tissue and is absorbed less by blood than the blue to green wavelengths that are required by other ChR variants. We used ReaChR expressed in the vibrissa motor cortex to drive spiking and vibrissa motion in awake mice when excited with red light through intact skull. Precise vibrissa movements were evoked by expressing ReaChR in the facial motor nucleus in the brainstem and illumination with red light through the external auditory canal. Thus, ReaChR enables transcranial optical activation of neurons in deep brain structures without the need to surgically thin the skull, form a transcranial window or implant optical fibers.
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- John Y Lin
- 1] Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA. [2]
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Scholz F, Bamberg E, Bamann C, Wachtveitl J. Tuning the primary reaction of channelrhodopsin-2 by imidazole, pH, and site-specific mutations. Biophys J 2012; 102:2649-57. [PMID: 22713581 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.04.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2011] [Revised: 03/12/2012] [Accepted: 04/19/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Femtosecond time-resolved absorption measurements were performed to investigate the influence of the pH, imidazole concentration, and point mutations on the isomerization process of Channelrhodopsin-2. Apart from the typical spectral characteristics of retinal isomerization, an additional absorption feature rises for the wild-type (wt) on a timescale from tens of ps to 1 ns within the spectral range of the photoproduct and is attributed to an equilibration between different K-intermediates. Remarkably, this absorption feature vanishes upon addition of imidazole or lowering the pH. In the latter case, the isomerization is dramatically slowed down, due to protonation of negatively charged amino acids within the retinal binding pocket, e.g., E123 and D253. Moreover, we investigated the influence of several point mutations within the retinal binding pocket E123T, E123D, C128T, and D156C. For E123T, the isomerization is retarded compared to wt and E123D, indicating that a negatively charged residue at this position functions as an effective catalyst in the isomerization process. In the case of the C128T mutant, all primary processes are slightly accelerated compared to the wt, whereas the isomerization dynamics for the D156C mutant is similar to wt after addition of imidazole.
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- Frank Scholz
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Churnside AB, King GM, Perkins TT. Label-free optical imaging of membrane patches for atomic force microscopy. OPTICS EXPRESS 2010; 18:23924-23932. [PMID: 21164738 PMCID: PMC3158999 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.023924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2010] [Revised: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 10/26/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In atomic force microscopy (AFM), finding sparsely distributed regions of interest can be difficult and time-consuming. Typically, the tip is scanned until the desired object is located. This process can mechanically or chemically degrade the tip, as well as damage fragile biological samples. Protein assemblies can be detected using the back-scattered light from a focused laser beam. We previously used back-scattered light from a pair of laser foci to stabilize an AFM. In the present work, we integrate these techniques to optically image patches of purple membranes prior to AFM investigation. These rapidly acquired optical images were aligned to the subsequent AFM images to ~40 nm, since the tip position was aligned to the optical axis of the imaging laser. Thus, this label-free imaging efficiently locates sparsely distributed protein assemblies for subsequent AFM study while simultaneously minimizing degradation of the tip and the sample.
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- Allison B. Churnside
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309,
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309,
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309,
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- Currently with Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211,
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309,
USA
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309,
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Dioumaev AK, Wang JM, Lanyi JK. Low-temperature FTIR study of multiple K intermediates in the photocycles of bacteriorhodopsin and xanthorhodopsin. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:2920-31. [PMID: 20136108 PMCID: PMC3820168 DOI: 10.1021/jp908698f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Low-temperature FTIR spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin and xanthorhodopsin was used to elucidate the number of K-like bathochromic states, their sequence, and their contributions to the photoequilibrium mixtures created by illumination at 80-180 K. We conclude that in bacteriorhodopsin the photocycle includes three distinct K-like states in the sequence bR (hv)--> I* --> J --> K(0) --> K(E) --> L --> ..., and similarly in xanthorhodopsin. K(0) is the main fraction in the mixture at 77 K that is formed from J. K(0) becomes thermally unstable above approximately 50 K in both proteins. At 77 K, both J-to-K(0) and K(0)-to-K(E) transitions occur and, contrarily to long-standing belief, cryogenic trapping at 77 K does not produce a pure K state but a mixture of the two states, K(0) and K(E), with contributions from K(E) of approximately 15 and approximately 10% in the two retinal proteins, respectively. Raising the temperature leads to increasing conversion of K(0) to K(E), and the two states coexist (without contamination from non-K-like states) in the 80-140 K range in bacteriorhodopsin, and in the 80-190 K range in xanthorhodopsin. Temperature perturbation experiments in these regions of coexistence revealed that, in spite of the observation of apparently stable mixtures of K(0) and K(E), the two states are not in thermally controlled equilibrium. The K(0)-to-K(E) transition is unidirectional, and the partial transformation to K(E) is due to distributed kinetics, which governs the photocycle dynamics at temperatures below approximately 245 K (Dioumaev and Lanyi, Biochemistry 2008, 47, 11125-11133). From spectral deconvolution, we conclude that the K(E) state, which is increasingly present at higher temperatures, is the same intermediate that is detected by time-resolved FTIR prior to its decay, on a time scale of hundreds of nanoseconds at ambient temperature (Dioumaev and Braiman, J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 1655-1662), into the K(L) state. We were unable to trap the latter separately from K(E) at low temperature, due to the slow distributed kinetics and the increasingly faster overlapping formation of the L state. Formation of the two consecutive K-like states in both proteins is accompanied by distortion of two different weakly bound water molecules: one in K(0), the other in K(E). The first, well-documented in bacteriorhodopsin at 77 K where K(0) dominates, was assigned to water 401 in bacteriorhodopsin. The other water molecule, whose participation has not been described previously, is disturbed on the next step of the photocycle, in K(E), in both proteins. In bacteriorhodopsin, the most likely candidate is water 407. However, unlike bacteriorhodopsin, the crystal structure of xanthorhodopsin lacks homologous weakly bound water molecules.
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- Andrei K. Dioumaev
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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Dioumaev AK, Lanyi JK. Two bathointermediates of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle, from time-resolved nanosecond spectra in the visible. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:16643-53. [PMID: 19994879 PMCID: PMC3808455 DOI: 10.1021/jp907393m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Time-resolved measurements were performed on wild-type bacteriorhodopsin with an optical multichannel analyzer in the spectral range 350-735 nm, from 100 ns to the photocycle completion, at four temperatures in the 5-30 degrees C range. The intent was to examine the possibility of two K-like bathochromic intermediates and to obtain their spectra and kinetics in the visible. The existence of a second K-like intermediate, termed KL, had been postulated (Shichida et al., Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1983, 723, 240-246) to reconcile inconsistencies in data in the pico- and microsecond time domains. However, introduction of KL led to a controversy, since neither its visible spectrum nor its kinetics could be confirmed. Infrared data (Dioumaev and Braiman, J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 1655-1662) revealed a state which might have been considered a homologue to KL, but it had a kinetic pattern different from that of the earlier proposed KL. Here, we characterize two distinct K-like intermediates, K(E) ("early") and K(L) ("late"), by their spectra and kinetics in the visible as revealed by global kinetic analysis. The K(E)-to-K(L) transition has a time constant of approximately 250 ns at 20 degrees C, and describes a shift from K(E) with lambda(max) at approximately 600 nm and extinction of approximately 56,000 M(-1) x cm(-1) to K(L) with lambda(max) at approximately 590 nm and extinction of approximately 50,000 M(-1) x cm(-1). The temperature dependence of this transition is characterized by an enthalpy of activation of DeltaH(++) approximately 40 kJ/mol and a positive entropy of activation of DeltaS(++)/R approximately 4. The consequences of multiple K-like states for interpreting the spectral evolution in the early stages of the photocycle are discussed.
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- Andrei K Dioumaev
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
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Mizuno M, Shibata M, Yamada J, Kandori H, Mizutani Y. Picosecond Time-Resolved Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin: Primary Protein Response to the Photoisomerization of Retinal. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:12121-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp904388w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Misao Mizuno
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, and Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 454-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, and Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 454-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, and Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 454-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, and Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 454-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, and Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 454-8555, Japan
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Hayashi S, Tajkhorshid E, Schulten K. Structural changes during the formation of early intermediates in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Biophys J 2002; 83:1281-97. [PMID: 12202355 PMCID: PMC1302228 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)73900-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Early intermediates of bacteriorhodopsin's photocycle were modeled by means of ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical and molecular dynamics simulations. The photoisomerization of the retinal chromophore and the formation of photoproducts corresponding to the early intermediates were simulated by molecular dynamics simulations. By means of the quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical method, the resulting structures were refined and the respective excitation energies were calculated. Two sequential intermediates were found with absorption maxima that exhibit red shifts from the resting state. The intermediates were therefore assigned to the K and KL states. In K, the conformation of the retinal chromophore is strongly deformed, and the N--H bond of the Schiff base points almost perpendicular to the membrane normal toward Asp-212. The strongly deformed conformation of the chromophore and weakened interaction of the Schiff base with the surrounding polar groups are the means by which the absorbed energy is stored. During the K-to-KL transition, the chromophore undergoes further conformational changes that result in the formation of a hydrogen bond between the N--H group of the Schiff base and Thr-89 as well as other rearrangements of the hydrogen-bond network in the vicinity of the Schiff base, which are suggested to play a key role in the proton transfer process in the later phase of the photocycle.
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- Shigehiko Hayashi
- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
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Maeda A, Ogura T, Kitagawa T. Resonance Raman study on proton-dissociated state of bacteriorhodopsin: stabilization of L-like intermediate having the all-trans chromophore. Biochemistry 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/bi00358a010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Groma GI, Kelemen L, Kulcsár A, Lakatos M, Váró G. Photocycle of dried acid purple form of bacteriorhodopsin. Biophys J 2001; 81:3432-41. [PMID: 11721005 PMCID: PMC1301799 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)75975-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The photocycle of dried bacteriorhodopsin, pretreated in a 0.3 M HCl solution, was studied. Some properties of this dried sample resemble that of the acid purple suspension: the retinal conformation is mostly all-trans, 15-anti form, the spectrum of the sample is blue-shifted by 5 nm to 560 nm, and it has a truncated photocycle. After photoexcitation, a K-like red-shifted intermediate appears, which decays to the ground state through several intermediates with spectra between the K and the ground state. There are no other bacteriorhodopsin-like intermediates (L, M, N, O) present in the photocycle. The K to K' transition proceeds with an enthalpy decrease, whereas during all the following steps, the entropic energy of the system decreases. The electric response signal of the oriented sample has only negative components, which relaxes to zero. These suggest that the steps after intermediate K represent a relaxation process, during which the absorbed energy is dissipated and the protein returns to its original ground state. The initial charge separation on the retinal is followed by limited charge rearrangements in the protein, and later, all these relax. The decay times of the intermediates are strongly influenced by the humidity of the sample. Double-flash experiments proved that all the intermediates are directly driven back to the ground state. The study of the dried acid purple samples could help in understanding the fast primary processes of the protein function. It may also have importance in technical applications.
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- G I Groma
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged H-6701, Hungary
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The light-activated proton-pumping bacteriorhodopsin and chloride ion-pumping halorhodopsin are compared. They belong to the family of retinal proteins, with 25% amino acid sequence homology. Both proteins have seven alpha helices across the membrane, surrounding the retinal binding pocket. Photoexcitation of all-trans retinal leads to ion transporting photocycles, which exhibit great similarities in the two proteins, despite the differences in the ion transported. The spectra of the K, L, N and O intermediates, calculated using time-resolved spectroscopic measurements, are very similar in both proteins. The absorption kinetic measurements reveal that the chloride ion transporting photocycle of halorhodopsin does not have intermediate M characteristic for deprotonated Schiff base, and intermediate L dominates the process. Energetically the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin is driven mostly by the decrease of the entropic energy, while the photocycle of halorhodopsin is enthalpy-driven. The ion transporting steps were characterized by the electrogenicity of the intermediates, calculated from the photoinduced transient electric signal measurements. The function of both proteins could be described with the 'local access' model developed for bacteriorhodopsin. In the framework of this model it is easy to understand how bacteriorhodopsin can be converted into a chloride pump, and halorhodopsin into a proton pump, by changing the ion specificity with added ions or site-directed mutagenesis.
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- G Váró
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary
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Ohtani H, Kikuchi O. Excitation Spectrum of the N Intermediate in the Photocycle of Bacteriorhodopsin. J Phys Chem B 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/jp991629v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hiroyuki Ohtani
- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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Haupts U, Tittor J, Oesterhelt D. Closing in on bacteriorhodopsin: progress in understanding the molecule. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1999; 28:367-99. [PMID: 10410806 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.28.1.367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 435] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin is the best understood ion transport protein and has become a paradigm for membrane proteins in general and transporters in particular. Models up to 2.5 A resolution of bacteriorhodopsin's structure have been published during the last three years and are basic for understanding its function. Thus one focus of this review is to summarize and to compare these models in detail. Another focus is to follow the protein through its catalytic cycle in summarizing more recent developments. We focus on literature published since 1995; a comprehensive series of reviews was published in 1995 (112).
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- U Haupts
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
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Bacteriorhodopsin is a seven-transmembrane helical protein that contains all-trans retinal. In this light-driven pump, a reaction cycle initiated by photoisomerization to 13-cis causes translocation of a proton across the membrane. Local changes in the geometry of the protonated Schiff base and the proton acceptor Asp85, and the proton conductivities of the half channels that lead from this active site to the two membrane surfaces, interact so as to allow timely proton transfers that result in proton release on the extracellular side and proton uptake on the cytoplasmic one. The details of the steps in this photocycle, and the underlying principles that ensure unidirectionality of the movement of a proton across the protein, provide strong clues to how ion pumps function.
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- J K Lanyi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine 92697-4560, USA
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Bullough PA, Henderson R. The projection structure of the low temperature K intermediate of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle determined by electron diffraction. J Mol Biol 1999; 286:1663-71. [PMID: 10064722 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is an integral membrane protein which absorbs visible light and pumps protons across the cell membrane of Halobacterium salinarium. bR is one of the few membrane-bound pumps whose structure is known at atomic resolution. Changes in the protein structure of bR are a crucial element in the mechanism of proton pumping and can be followed by a variety of spectroscopic, and diffraction methods. A number of intermediates in the photocycle have been identified spectroscopically and a number of laboratories have been successful in reporting the structural changes taking place in the later stages of the photocycle over the millisecond time-scale using diffraction techniques. These studies have revealed significant changes in the protein structure, possibly involving changes in flexibility and/or movement of helices. Earlier intermediates which arise and decay on the picosecond to microsecond time-scale have proven more difficult to trap. Here, we report for the first time the successful trapping and diffraction analysis of bR in a low temperature state resembling the very early intermediate, K. We have calculated a projection difference map to 3.5 A resolution. The map reveals no significant structural changes in the molecule, despite having a very low background noise level. This does not rule out the possibility of movements in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the membrane. However, the data are consistent with other evidence that significant structural changes do not occur in the protein itself.
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- P A Bullough
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2UH, UK.
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Gergely C, Zimányi L, Váró G. Bacteriorhodopsin Intermediate Spectra Determined over a Wide pH Range. J Phys Chem B 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/jp971381e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Csilla Gergely
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
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Dioumaev AK, Braiman MS. Two Bathointermediates of the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle, Distinguished by Nanosecond Time-Resolved FTIR Spectroscopy at Room Temperature. J Phys Chem B 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/jp961512w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Andrei K. Dioumaev
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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Imamoto Y, Kataoka M, Tokunaga F. Photoreaction cycle of photoactive yellow protein from Ectothiorhodospira halophila studied by low-temperature spectroscopy. Biochemistry 1996; 35:14047-53. [PMID: 8916889 DOI: 10.1021/bi961342d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The photocycle of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) from Ectothiorhodospira halophila was studied by low-temperature spectroscopy. Irradiation of PYP at -190 degrees C produced a photo-steady-state mixture composed of bathochromic and hypsochromic photoproducts (PYPB and PYPH). Upon warming, PYPH was thermally converted to a slightly blue-shifted intermediate (PYPHL) above -150 degrees C and then to a red-shifted one (PYPL) above -80 degrees C. PYPB was thermally converted to the blue-shifted intermediate (PYPBL) above -180 degrees C and then to PYPL above -90 degrees C. PYPL thermally reverted to PYP above -50 degrees C, completing the photocycle. The spectral properties of PYPL formed at low temperature suggest that it corresponds to the red-shifted photoproduct detected in the nano- to microsecond time scale at room temperature (A465). The absolute absorption spectra of PYPH, PYPB, and PYPL were estimated, and their absorption maxima were determined to be 442 and 489 nm at -190 degrees C and 456 nm at -80 degrees C, respectively. Although a near-UV intermediate (A355) is observed in the recovery process of PYP from A465 at room temperature, it was not detected at low temperatures, probably due to the effects of temperature and the presence of glycerol. A scheme of the photocycle of PYP is presented.
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- Y Imamoto
- Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan
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Hage W, Kim M, Frei H, Mathies RA. Protein Dynamics in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle: A Nanosecond Step-Scan FTIR Investigation of the KL to L Transition. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/jp9614198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Wolfgang Hage
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and Structural Biology Division, MS Calvin Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and Structural Biology Division, MS Calvin Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and Structural Biology Division, MS Calvin Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and Structural Biology Division, MS Calvin Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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Engels M, Gerwert K, Bashford D. Computational studies of the early intermediates of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Biophys Chem 1995; 56:95-104. [PMID: 7662874 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(95)00020-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Starting from a refined model of bacteriorhodopsin's ground state, alternative models of the K and L intermediates with retinal in either 13-cis or 13-14-dicis configuration have been generated by molecular dynamics simulations. All models have been submitted to electrostatic calculations in order to determine the pK1/2 values of particular residues of interest in the active site. Our pK1/2 calculations for the refined ground state can reestablish our former results, this time without adjusting the intrinsic pK of the Schiff base. For the K intermediate the electrostatic calculations show no significant change in the pK1/2 values compared to the ground state for most of the titrating groups in the active site. For the L intermediate where retinal possesses a 13-cis configuration, we found that electrostatic factors decrease the pK1/2 value of the Schiff base by 4-5 pK-units compared to the ground state. The calculations suggest that changes of the electrostatic environment via a pure 13-cis model are sufficient to produce a pK reduction of the Schiff base that will promote subsequent proton transfer steps.
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- M Engels
- Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Ohtani H, Naramoto S, Yamamoto N. LASER PHOTOLYSIS OF THE PURPLE MEMBRANE OF Halobacterium halobium IN THE PHOTOSTATIONARY STATE: THE PHOTOBRANCHING PROCESS FROM THE O640INTERMEDIATE. Photochem Photobiol 1994. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1994.tb05122.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Light-Induced Reaction Sequence of the Chromophore in Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Time-Resolved RR Spectroscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85060-8_50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Lanyi JK. Proton translocation mechanism and energetics in the light-driven pump bacteriorhodopsin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1183:241-61. [PMID: 8268193 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(93)90226-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In spite of many still unsolved problems, the mechanism and energetics of the light-driven proton transport are now basically understood. Energy captured during photoexcitation, and retained in the form of bond rotations and strains of the retinal, is transformed into directed changes in the pKa values of vectorially arranged proton transfer groups. The framework for the spatial and temporal organization of these changes is provided by the protein near the retinal Schiff base. The transport is completed by proton transfer among three essential groups in three domains lying roughly parallel with the membrane plane (Fig. 1): (a) the anionic D85 that is included in a complex of residues on the extracellular side containing also R82, D212, Y57 and bound water; (b) the protonated Schiff base; and (c) the protonated D96 that is included in a complex of residues on the cytoplasmic side containing also R227, T46, S226, and bound water. Other neighboring polar groups and water bound elsewhere which play a role in the transport do so either by further influencing the pKa values of the three protonable groups, or by providing passive pathways for proton transfer. The Schiff base proton, destabilized after photoexcitation, is transferred to the low pKa group D85 located on the extracellular side. The access of the deprotonated Schiff base then changes to the cytoplasmic side (the 'reprotonation switch') and its proton affinity increases. Finally, the proton of the high pKa group D96, with access to the cytoplasmic side, is destabilized by a protein conformational change through rearrangement of R227, T46, S226 and bound water, and becomes transferred to the Schiff base. As shown schematically in Fig. 3, these internal events are coupled to proton release and uptake at the two aqueous surfaces. The charge of the extracellular hydrogen-bonded complex is redistributed upon protonation of D85, and if the pH is above the pKa of the complex a proton is released to the bulk. After reprotonation of the Schiff base the pKa of the cytoplasmic hydrogen-bonded complex is raised well above the pH, and D96 regains a proton from the bulk. If the pH is lower than the pKa of the extracellular complex the proton release is delayed until the end of the photocycle. In either sequence there is net transfer of a proton from the cytoplasmic to the extracellular phase. The transfer of excess free energy from the chromophore to the protein, and finally to the transported proton, is described by a characteristic thermodynamic cycle.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- J K Lanyi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine 92717
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Kandori H, Yoshihara K, Tomioka H, Sasabe H, Shichida Y. Comparative study of primary photochemical events of two retinal proteins, bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin, by use of subpicosecond time-resolved spectroscopy. Chem Phys Lett 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)87078-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Imamoto Y, Shichida Y, Hirayama J, Tomioka H, Kamo N, Yoshizawa T. NANOSECOND LASER PHOTOLYSIS OF PHOBORHODOPSIN: FROM Natronobacterium pharaonis APPEARANCE OF KL AND L INTERMEDIATES IN THE PHOTOCYCLE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. Photochem Photobiol 1992. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1992.tb09737.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Diller R, Iannone M, Cowen BR, Maiti S, Bogomolni RA, Hochstrasser RM. Picosecond dynamics of bacteriorhodopsin, probed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. Biochemistry 1992; 31:5567-72. [PMID: 1610802 DOI: 10.1021/bi00139a020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The photoinduced reaction cycle of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) has been studied by means of a recently developed picosecond infrared spectroscopic method at ambient temperature. BR - K difference spectra between 1560 and 1700 cm-1 have been recorded at delay times from 100 ps to 14 ns. The spectrum remains unchanged during this period. The negative difference OD band at 1660 cm-1 indicates the peptide backbone responds within 50 ps. A survey in the region of carboxylic side chain absorption around 1740 cm-1 reveals that perturbations of those groups, present in low-temperature FTIR spectra, are not observable within 10 ns, suggesting a slow conformational change.
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- R Diller
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104
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A description of the rate constants and the energetics of the elementary reaction steps of the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin has been helpful in understanding the mechanism of proton transport in this light-driven pump. The evidence suggests a single unbranched reaction sequence, BR-hv----K in equilibrium with L in equilibrium with M1----M2 in equilibrium with N in equilibrium with O----BR, where coupling to the proton-motive force is at the energetically and mechanistically important M1----M2 step. The consequences of site-specific mutations expressed homologously in Halobacterium halobium have revealed characteristics of the Schiff base deprotonation in the L----M1 reaction, the reorientation of the Schiff base from the extracellular to the cytoplasmic side in the M1----M2 reaction, and the reprotonation of the Schiff base in the M2----N reaction.
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- J K Lanyi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine 92717
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Picosecond Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin: Structure and Kinetics of the J, K, and KL Intermediates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-84771-4_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Sharonov AY, Tkachenko NV, Savransky VV, Dioumaev AK. TIME-RESOLVED ULTRAVIOLET ABSORPTION CHANGES IN THE PHOTOCYCLE OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN. Photochem Photobiol 1991. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1991.tb02108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Maeda A, Sasaki J, Pfefferlé JM, Shichida Y, Yoshizawa T. FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRAL STUDIES ON THE SCHIFF BASE MODE OF ALL-trans BACTERIORHODOPSIN and ITS PHOTOINTERMEDIATES, K and L. Photochem Photobiol 1991. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1991.tb02111.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Blanchard D, Gilmore D, Brack T, Lemaire H, Hughes D, Atkinson G. Picosecond time-resolved absorption and fluorescence in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle: Vibrationally-excited species. Chem Phys 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(91)89050-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Milder SJ, Thorgeirsson TE, Miercke LJ, Stroud RM, Kliger DS. Effects of detergent environments on the photocycle of purified monomeric bacteriorhodopsin. Biochemistry 1991; 30:1751-61. [PMID: 1993191 DOI: 10.1021/bi00221a004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Time-resolved difference spectra have been obtained for the photocycle of delipidated bacteriorhodopsin monomers (d-BR) in six different detergent micelle environments that were prepared by two new detergent-exchange techniques. A global kinetic analysis of the photocycle spectra for d-BR in each detergent environment was performed. Comparison of these results with those obtained for the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin in purple membrane (PM) shows that there is one fewer kinetically distinguishable process for monomeric BR between the decay of the K intermediate and the rise of the M intermediate. Assuming a sequential pathway occurs in the photocycle, it appears that the equilibrium between the L and M intermediates is reached much more rapidly in the detergent micelles. This is attributed to a more direct interaction between Asp-85 and the proton on the nitrogen of the Schiff base of retinal for BR in the detergents. Equilibrium concentrations of late photocycle intermediates are also altered in detergents. The later steps of the photocycle, including the decay of the M intermediate, are slowed in detergents with rings in their hydrocarbon region. This is attributed to effects on conformational changes occurring during the decay of M and/or other later photocycle intermediates. The lifetime of dark adaptation of light-adapted d-BR in different detergent environments increases in environments where the lifetime of the M intermediate increases. These results suggest that the high percentage of either unsaturated or methyl-branched lipids in PM and the membranes of other retinal proteins may be important for their effective functioning.
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- S J Milder
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064
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Yoshizawa T, Kandori H. Chapter 2 Primary photochemical events in the rhodopsin molecule. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0278-4327(91)90023-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Y Shichida
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
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Brack T, Atkinson G. Picosecond time-resolved resonance Raman spectrum of the K-590 intermediate in the room temperature bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. J Mol Struct 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-2860(89)80018-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Ottolenghi M, Sheves M. Synthetic retinals as probes for the binding site and photoreactions in rhodopsins. J Membr Biol 1989; 112:193-212. [PMID: 2693733 DOI: 10.1007/bf01870951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- M Ottolenghi
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Holzwarth AR. Applications of ultrafast laser spectroscopy for the study of biological systems. Q Rev Biophys 1989; 22:239-326. [PMID: 2695961 DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500002985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The discovery of mode-locked laser operation now nearly two decades ago has started a development which enables researchers to probe the dynamics of ultrafast physical and chemical processes at the molecular level on shorter and shorter time scales. Naturally the first applications were in the fields of photophysics and photochemistry where it was then possible for the first time to probe electronic and vibrational relaxation processes on a sub-nanosecond timescale. The development went from lasers producing pulses of many picoseconds to the shortest pulses which are at present just a few femtoseconds long. Soon after their discovery ultrashort pulses were applied also to biological systems which has revealed a wealth of information contributing to our understanding of a broadrange of biological processes on the molecular level.It is the aim of this review to discuss the recent advances and point out some future trends in the study of ultrafast processes in biological systems using laser techniques. The emphasis will be mainly on new results obtained during the last 5 or 6 years. The term ultrafast means that I shall restrict myself to sub-nanosecond processes with a few exceptions.
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- A R Holzwarth
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim/Ruhr, FRG
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Trissl HW, Gärtner W, Leibl W. Reversed picosecond charge displacement from the photoproduct K of bacteriorhodopsin demonstrated photoelectrically. Chem Phys Lett 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(89)87381-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Dioumaev A, Savransky V, Tkachenko N, Chukharev V. Quantum yield and extinction measurements in strongly overlapping reactant and photoproduct absorption bands. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(89)80044-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Atkinson G, Brack T, Blanchard D, Rumbles G. Picosecond time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy of the initial trans to cis isomerization in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Chem Phys 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(89)87077-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Maurer R, Vogel J, Schneider S. ANALYSIS OF FLASH PHOTOLYSIS DATA BY A GLOBAL FIT WITH MULTI-EXPONENTIALS–II. DETERMINATION OF CONSISTENT NATURAL RATE CONSTANTS and THE ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF THE TRANSIENT SPECIES IN THE BACTERIORHODOPSIN PHOTOCYCLE FROM MEASUREMENTS AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES. Photochem Photobiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1987.tb04764.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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