Crystal structures of bR(D85S) favor a model of bacteriorhodopsin as a hydroxyl‐ion pump
- 4 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 564 (3), 301-306
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(04)00208-x
Abstract
Structural features on the extracellular side of the D85S mutant of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) suggest that wild-type bR could be a hydroxyl-ion pump. A position between the protonated Schiff base and residue 85 serves as an anion-binding site in the mutant protein, and hydroxyl ions should have access to this site during the O-intermediate of the wild-type bR photocycle. The guanidinium group of R82 is proposed (1) to serve as a shuttle that eliminates the Born energy penalty for entry of an anion into this binding pocket, and conversely, (2) to block the exit of a proton or a related proton carrierThis publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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