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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5470
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-8
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Halorhodopsin, an archaeal rhodopsin ubiquitous in Haloarchaea, uses light energy to pump chloride through biological membranes. Halorhodopsin crystals were grown in a cubic lipidic phase, which allowed the x-ray structure determination of this anion pump at 1.8 angstrom resolution. Halorhodopsin assembles to trimers around a central patch consisting of palmitic acid. Next to the protonated Schiff base between Lys(242) and the isomerizable retinal chromophore, a single chloride ion occupies the transport site. Energetic calculations on chloride binding reveal a combination of ion-ion and ion-dipole interactions for stabilizing the anion 18 angstroms below the membrane surface. Ion dragging across the protonated Schiff base explains why chloride and proton translocation modes are mechanistically equivalent in archaeal rhodopsins.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
288
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1390-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Bacteriorhodopsins, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Biological Transport, Active, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Chlorides, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Crystallization, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Cytoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Halobacterium salinarum, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Halorhodopsins, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Hydrogen Bonding, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Ion Pumps, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Ion Transport, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Light, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Lipids, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Protein Folding, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Protein Structure, Quaternary, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Protons, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Schiff Bases, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Static Electricity, pubmed-meshheading:10827943-Thermodynamics
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Structure of the light-driven chloride pump halorhodopsin at 1.8 A resolution.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D-82152 Martinsried bei München, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't