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Combined Use of Non-Invasive and Micro-Invasive Analytical Investigations to Understand the State of Conservation and the Causes of Degradation of I Tesori del Mare (1901) by Plinio Nomellini. Methods Protoc 2022; 5:mps5030052. [PMID: 35736553 PMCID: PMC9229264 DOI: 10.3390/mps5030052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In this study, the investigation of the oil painting on canvas I Tesori del Mare made by Plinio Nomellini in 1901 is presented. The aim of the research was threefold: the examination of the state of conservation in view of the restoration treatment, together with the identification of the causes of degradation and the study of the artistic technique. During the years, the artwork underwent several cleaning and fixing interventions, resulting in a patchy appearance of the surface. Nevertheless, the presence of consistent liftings persists, while the protective coating shows uneven chromatic alteration, both requiring further analysis. Multispectral imaging allowed for better visualization of the figuration’s structure and the restored areas. The combined use of Raman spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy in the Attenuated Total Reflection mode (FT-IR ATR), and Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with an Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) enabled better understanding of the stratigraphy through the identification of some pigments, the binder, and the aged varnish layer on the top. SEM/EDS highlighted the presence of zinc in both the ground layer and the paint layers. Furthermore, FT-IR ATR spectroscopy showed peaks related to metal soaps such as zinc stearate, which are known to cause severe delamination of the paint layers, explaining the recurring lifting issues. Eventually, the varnish layer was found to be acrylic resin, presumably mixed with varnishes applied in past restoration treatments.
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Asido M, Kar RK, Kriebel CN, Braun M, Glaubitz C, Schapiro I, Wachtveitl J. Transient Near-UV Absorption of the Light-Driven Sodium Pump Krokinobacter eikastus Rhodopsin 2: A Spectroscopic Marker for Retinal Configuration. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:6284-6291. [PMID: 34213348 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We report a transient signature in the near-UV absorption of Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2), which spans from the femtosecond up to the millisecond time scale. The signature rises with the all-trans to 13-cis isomerization of retinal and decays with the reisomerization to all-trans in the late photocycle, making it a promising marker band for retinal configuration. Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulations show that the near-UV absorption signal corresponds to an S0 → S3 and/or an S0 → S5 transition, which is present in all photointermediates. These transitions exhibit a negligible spectral shift by the altering protein environment, in contrast to the main absorption band. This is rationalized by the extension of the transition densities that omits the Schiff base nitrogen. Further characterization and first steps into possible optogenetic applications were performed with near-UV quenching experiments of an induced photostationary state, yielding an ultrafast regeneration of the parent state of KR2.
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- Marvin Asido
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Straße 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics Research at the Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ), Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Straße 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ), Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics Research at the Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Straße 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Eckert CE, Kaur J, Glaubitz C, Wachtveitl J. Ultrafast Photoinduced Deactivation Dynamics of Proteorhodopsin. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:512-517. [PMID: 28072545 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We report femtosecond time-resolved absorption change measurements of the photoinduced deactivation dynamics of a microbial rhodopsin in the ultraviolet-visible and mid-infrared range. The blue light quenching process is recorded in green proteorhodopsin's (GPR) primary proton donor mutant E108Q from the deprotonated 13-cis photointermediate. The return of GPR to the dark state occurs in two steps, starting with the photoinduced 13-cis to all-trans reisomerization of the retinal. The subsequent Schiff base reprotonation via the primary proton acceptor (D97) occurs on a nanosecond time scale. This step is two orders of magnitude faster than that in bacteriorhodopsin, potentially because of the very high pKA of the GPR primary proton acceptor.
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- C Elias Eckert
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main , Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main , Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main , Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main , Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Bamann C, Bamberg E, Wachtveitl J, Glaubitz C. Proteorhodopsin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1837:614-25. [PMID: 24060527 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2013] [Revised: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/13/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Proteorhodopsins are the most abundant retinal based photoreceptors and their phototrophic function might be relevant in marine ecosystems. Here, we describe their remarkable molecular properties with a special focus on the green absorbing variant. Its distinct features include a high pKa value of the primary proton acceptor stabilized through an interaction with a conserved histidine, a long-range interaction between the cytoplasmic EF loop and the chromophore entailing a particular mode of color tuning and a variable proton pumping vectoriality with complex voltage-dependence. The proteorhodopsin family represents a profound example for structure-function relationships. Especially the development of a biophysical understanding of green proteorhodopsin is an excellent example for the unique opportunities offered by a combined approach of advanced spectroscopic and electrophysiological methods. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Retinal Proteins-You can teach an old dog new tricks.
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- Christian Bamann
- Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue Straße 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue Straße 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Max-von-Laue Straße 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Institute for Biophysical Chemistry & Centre for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Max-von-Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Warp E, Agarwal G, Wyart C, Friedmann D, Oldfield CS, Conner A, Del Bene F, Arrenberg AB, Baier H, Isacoff EY. Emergence of patterned activity in the developing zebrafish spinal cord. Curr Biol 2011; 22:93-102. [PMID: 22197243 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2011] [Revised: 11/16/2011] [Accepted: 12/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Developing neural networks display spontaneous and correlated rhythmic bursts of action potentials that are essential for circuit refinement. In the spinal cord, it is poorly understood how correlated activity is acquired and how its emergence relates to the formation of the spinal central pattern generator (CPG), the circuit that mediates rhythmic behaviors like walking and swimming. It is also unknown whether early, uncorrelated activity is necessary for the formation of the coordinated CPG. RESULTS Time-lapse imaging in the intact zebrafish embryo with the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCaMP3 revealed a rapid transition from slow, sporadic activity to fast, ipsilaterally correlated, and contralaterally anticorrelated activity, characteristic of the spinal CPG. Ipsilateral correlations were acquired through the coalescence of local microcircuits. Brief optical manipulation of activity with the light-driven pump halorhodopsin revealed that the transition to correlated activity was associated with a strengthening of ipsilateral connections, likely mediated by gap junctions. Contralateral antagonism increased in strength at the same time. The transition to coordinated activity was disrupted by long-term optical inhibition of sporadic activity in motoneurons and ventral longitudinal descending interneurons and resulted in more neurons exhibiting uncoordinated activity patterns at later time points. CONCLUSIONS These findings show that the CPG in the zebrafish spinal cord emerges directly from a sporadically active network as functional connectivity strengthens between local and then more distal neurons. These results also reveal that early, sporadic activity in a subset of ventral spinal neurons is required for the integration of maturing neurons into the coordinated CPG network.
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- Erica Warp
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Kleinlogel S, Terpitz U, Legrum B, Gökbuget D, Boyden ES, Bamann C, Wood PG, Bamberg E. A gene-fusion strategy for stoichiometric and co-localized expression of light-gated membrane proteins. Nat Methods 2011; 8:1083-8. [DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2011] [Accepted: 09/19/2011] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Projection structure of channelrhodopsin-2 at 6 Å resolution by electron crystallography. J Mol Biol 2011; 414:86-95. [PMID: 22001017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2011] [Revised: 09/27/2011] [Accepted: 09/29/2011] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) is the prototype of a new class of light-gated ion channels that is finding widespread applications in optogenetics and biomedical research. We present a 6-Å projection map of ChR2, obtained by cryo-electron microscopy of two-dimensional crystals grown from pure, heterologously expressed protein. The map shows that ChR2 is the same dimer with non-crystallographic 2-fold symmetry in three different membrane crystals. This is consistent with biochemical analysis, which shows a stable dimer in detergent solution. Comparison to the projection map to bacteriorhodopsin indicates a similar structure of seven transmembrane alpha helices. Based on the projection map and sequence alignments, we built a homology model of ChR2 that potentially accounts for light-induced channel gating. Although a monomeric channel is not ruled out, comparison to other membrane channels and transporters suggests that the ChR2 channel is located at the dimer interface on the 2-fold axis, lined by transmembrane helices 3 and 4.
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Bamann C, Kirsch T, Nagel G, Bamberg E. Spectral Characteristics of the Photocycle of Channelrhodopsin-2 and Its Implication for Channel Function. J Mol Biol 2008; 375:686-94. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.10.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2007] [Revised: 10/17/2007] [Accepted: 10/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Zhang F, Wang LP, Brauner M, Liewald JF, Kay K, Watzke N, Wood PG, Bamberg E, Nagel G, Gottschalk A, Deisseroth K. Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature 2007; 446:633-9. [PMID: 17410168 DOI: 10.1038/nature05744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1205] [Impact Index Per Article: 70.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2006] [Accepted: 03/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Our understanding of the cellular implementation of systems-level neural processes like action, thought and emotion has been limited by the availability of tools to interrogate specific classes of neural cells within intact, living brain tissue. Here we identify and develop an archaeal light-driven chloride pump (NpHR) from Natronomonas pharaonis for temporally precise optical inhibition of neural activity. NpHR allows either knockout of single action potentials, or sustained blockade of spiking. NpHR is compatible with ChR2, the previous optical excitation technology we have described, in that the two opposing probes operate at similar light powers but with well-separated action spectra. NpHR, like ChR2, functions in mammals without exogenous cofactors, and the two probes can be integrated with calcium imaging in mammalian brain tissue for bidirectional optical modulation and readout of neural activity. Likewise, NpHR and ChR2 can be targeted together to Caenorhabditis elegans muscle and cholinergic motor neurons to control locomotion bidirectionally. NpHR and ChR2 form a complete system for multimodal, high-speed, genetically targeted, all-optical interrogation of living neural circuits.
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- Feng Zhang
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Nagel G, Szellas T, Huhn W, Kateriya S, Adeishvili N, Berthold P, Ollig D, Hegemann P, Bamberg E. Channelrhodopsin-2, a directly light-gated cation-selective membrane channel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:13940-5. [PMID: 14615590 PMCID: PMC283525 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1936192100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1787] [Impact Index Per Article: 85.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Microbial-type rhodopsins are found in archaea, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes. Some of them represent membrane ion transport proteins such as bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump, or channelrhodopsin-1 (ChR1), a recently identified light-gated proton channel from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. ChR1 and ChR2, a related microbial-type rhodopsin from C. reinhardtii, were shown to be involved in generation of photocurrents of this green alga. We demonstrate by functional expression, both in oocytes of Xenopus laevis and mammalian cells, that ChR2 is a directly light-switched cation-selective ion channel. This channel opens rapidly after absorption of a photon to generate a large permeability for monovalent and divalent cations. ChR2 desensitizes in continuous light to a smaller steady-state conductance. Recovery from desensitization is accelerated by extracellular H+ and negative membrane potential, whereas closing of the ChR2 ion channel is decelerated by intracellular H+. ChR2 is expressed mainly in C. reinhardtii under low-light conditions, suggesting involvement in photoreception in dark-adapted cells. The predicted seven-transmembrane alpha helices of ChR2 are characteristic for G protein-coupled receptors but reflect a different motif for a cation-selective ion channel. Finally, we demonstrate that ChR2 may be used to depolarize small or large cells, simply by illumination.
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- Georg Nagel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Marie-Curie-Strasse 15, 60439 Frankfurt, Germany.
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Gaertner W, Oesterhelt D, Vogel J, Maurer R, Schneider S. Photocycles of bacteriorhodopsins containing 13-alkylsubstituted retinals. Biochemistry 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/bi00409a055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the late 1970s, on the basis of rRNA phylogeny, Archaea (archaebacteria) was identified as a distinct domain of life besides Bacteria (eubacteria) and Eucarya. Though forming a separate domain, Archaea display an enormous diversity of lifestyles and metabolic capabilities. Many archaeal species are adapted to extreme environments with respect to salinity, temperatures around the boiling point of water, and/or extremely alkaline or acidic pH. This has posed the challenge of studying the molecular and mechanistic bases on which these organisms can cope with such adverse conditions. This review considers our cumulative knowledge on archaeal mechanisms of primary energy conservation, in relationship to those of bacteria and eucarya. Although the universal principle of chemiosmotic energy conservation also holds for Archaea, distinct features have been discovered with respect to novel ion-transducing, membrane-residing protein complexes and the use of novel cofactors in bioenergetics of methanogenesis. From aerobically respiring Archaea, unusual electron-transporting supercomplexes could be isolated and functionally resolved, and a proposal on the organization of archaeal electron transport chains has been presented. The unique functions of archaeal rhodopsins as sensory systems and as proton or chloride pumps have been elucidated on the basis of recent structural information on the atomic scale. Whereas components of methanogenesis and of phototrophic energy transduction in halobacteria appear to be unique to Archaea, respiratory complexes and the ATP synthase exhibit some chimeric features with respect to their evolutionary origin. Nevertheless, archaeal ATP synthases are to be considered distinct members of this family of secondary energy transducers. A major challenge to future investigations is the development of archaeal genetic transformation systems, in order to gain access to the regulation of bioenergetic systems and to overproducers of archaeal membrane proteins as a prerequisite for their crystallization.
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- G Schäfer
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
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Kalaidzidis IV, Kalaidzidis YL, Kaulen AD. Flash-induced voltage changes in halorhodopsin from Natronobacterium pharaonis. FEBS Lett 1998; 427:59-63. [PMID: 9613600 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00394-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The flash-induced voltage response of halorhodopsin at high NaCl concentration comprises two main kinetic components. The first component with tau approximately 1 micros does not exceed 4% of the overall response amplitude and is probably associated with the formation of the L (hR520) intermediate. The second main component with tau approximately 1-2.5 ms which is independent of Cl- concentration can be ascribed to the transmembrane Cl- translocation during the L intermediate decay. The photoelectric response in the absence of Cl- has the opposite polarity and does not exceed 6% of the overall response amplitude at high NaCl concentration. A pH decrease results in substitution of the Cl(-)-dependent components by the photoresponse which is similar to that in the absence of Cl-. Thus, the difference between photoresponses of chloride-binding and chloride-free halorhodopsin forms resembles that of bacteriorhodopsin purple neutral and blue acid forms, respectively. The photovoltage data obtained can hardly be explained within the framework of the photocycle scheme suggested by Varo et al. [Biochemistry 34 (1995), 14490-14499]. We suppose that the O-type intermediate belongs to some form of halorhodopsin incapable of Cl- transport.
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- I V Kalaidzidis
- Department of Photobiochemistry, A.A. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia
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Molecular sensors based on the photoelectric effect of bacteriorhodopsin: Origin of differential responsivity. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0928-4931(97)00011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Bamberg E, Butt HJ, Eisenrauch A, Fendler K. Charge transport of ion pumps on lipid bilayer membranes. Q Rev Biophys 1993; 26:1-25. [PMID: 7692462 DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500003942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Ion pumps create ion gradients across cell membranes while consuming light energy or chemical energy. The ion gradients are used by the corresponding cell types for passive-ion transport via ion channels or carriers or for accumulation of nutrients like sugar or amino acids via cotransport systems or antiporters.
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- E Bamberg
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt am Main, FRG
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Chapter 6 Ion transport rhodopsins (bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin): Structure and function. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60255-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Charge displacements during the photocycle of halorhodopsin. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(92)85136-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Oesterhelt D, Tittor J, Bamberg E. A unifying concept for ion translocation by retinal proteins. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1992; 24:181-91. [PMID: 1526960 DOI: 10.1007/bf00762676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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First, halorhodopsin is capable of pumping protons after illumination with green and blue light in the same direction as chloride. Second, mutated bacteriorhodopsin where the proton acceptor Asp85 and the proton donor Asp96 are replaced by Asn showed proton pump activity after illumination with blue light in the same direction as wildtype after green light illumination. These results can be explained by and are discussed in light of our new hypothesis: structural changes in either molecule lead to a change in ion affinity and accessibility for determining the vectoriality of the transport through the two proteins.
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- D Oesterhelt
- Max-Planck-Institu für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
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Oesterhelt D, Bräuchle C, Hampp N. Bacteriorhodopsin: a biological material for information processing. Q Rev Biophys 1991; 24:425-78. [PMID: 1784713 DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500003863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Technology which makes use of biological materials has advanced dramatically in the last few decades. Production of specific biochemicals by selected microbial strains, the use of enzymes for stereospecific biosynthesis of materials and gene technological production of biologically important macromolecules are a few examples of these developments.
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- D Oesterhelt
- Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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Duschl A, Lanyi JK, Zimányi L. Properties and photochemistry of a halorhodopsin from the haloalkalophile, Natronobacterium pharaonis. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)40007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Comparison of the primary structure of the chloride pump halorhodopsin with that of the proton pump bacteriorhodopsin provides insight into light-driven ion transport by retinal proteins. Several conserved amino acid residues in the membrane-spanning region of both proteins and their interaction with different isomerization states of retinal are suggested to be the key element for ion transport in both proteins.
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WAGNER G, Traulich B, Hartmann K, Oesterhelt D. PHOTOCHROMIC SYNERGISM OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN- and HALORHODOPSIN-MEDIATED PHOTOPHOSPHORYLATION IN Halobacterium halobium. Photochem Photobiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1987.tb04786.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Chloride uptake in intact cells of Halobacterium halobium was characterized by rates of influx and efflux of 36Cl- under conditions of light, respiration, or both. Halobacterial mutant strains with and without retinal transport proteins allowed study of the effects of halorhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin under illumination. Two structurally independent chloride transport systems could be distinguished: halorhodopsin, the already known light-driven chloride pump, and a newly described secondary uptake system, which was energized by respiration or by light via bacteriorhodopsin.
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It has been shown earlier that the deprotonation of the Schiff base of illuminated halorhodopsin proceeds with a much lower pKa than that of the unilluminated pigment and the reversible protonation change is catalyzed by azide and cyanate [Hegemann, P., Oesterhelt, D., & Steiner, M. (1985) EMBO J. 4, 2347-2350]. We have studied the kinetics of the proton-transfer events with flash spectroscopy and compared a variety of anionic bases with different pKa with regard to their apparent binding constants and their catalytic activities. The results suggest a general base catalysis mechanism in which the anionic bases bind with apparently low affinity to halorhodopsin, although with some degree of size- and/or shape-dependent specificity. The locus of the catalysis is accessible from the cytoplasmic side of the membrane and is not at site I, where various anions bind and shift the pKa of the deprotonation. Neither is it at site II, where a few specific anions (like chloride) bind to the all-trans pigment. It may be concluded that while the all-trans pigment loses its Schiff base proton very rapidly at its pKa, there is a kinetic barrier to this deprotonation in the 13-cis photointermediate that can be partially overcome by the reversible protonation of an extrinsic anionic base, which shuttles protons between the interior of the protein and the aqueous medium. The need for an extrinsic proton acceptor for efficient deprotonation of the Schiff base of halorhodopsin is one of the main differences between this pigment and the analogous retinal protein, bacteriorhodopsin.
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Photochromism of halorhodopsin. cis/trans isomerization of the retinal around the 13-14 double bond. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66975-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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