Hohenfeld IP, Wegener AA, Engelhard M. Purification of histidine tagged bacteriorhodopsin, pharaonis halorhodopsin and pharaonis sensory rhodopsin II functionally expressed in Escherichia coli.
FEBS Lett 1999;
442:198-202. [PMID:
9929001 DOI:
10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01659-7]
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Abstract
Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) from Halobacterium salinarum as well as halorhodopsin (pHR) and sensory rhodopsin II (pSRII) from Natronobacterium pharaonis were functionally expressed in E. coli using the method of Shimono et al. IFEBS Lett. (1997) 420, 54-56]. The histidine tagged proteins were purified with yields up to 1.0 mg/l cell culture and characterized by ESI mass spectrometry and their photocycle. The pSRII and pHR photocycles were indistinguishable from the wild type proteins. The BR photocycle was considerably prolonged. pSOII is located in the cytoplasmic membrane and the C-terminus is oriented towards the cytoplasm as determined by immunogold labelling.
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