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Palombo R, Barneschi L, Pedraza-González L, Yang X, Olivucci M. Picosecond quantum-classical dynamics reveals that the coexistence of light-induced microbial and animal chromophore rotary motion modulates the isomerization quantum yield of heliorhodopsin. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:10343-10356. [PMID: 38501246 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00193a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
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Rhodopsins are light-responsive proteins forming two vast and evolutionary distinct superfamilies whose functions are invariably triggered by the photoisomerization of a single retinal chromophore. In 2018 a third widespread superfamily of rhodopsins called heliorhodopsins was discovered using functional metagenomics. Heliorhodopsins, with their markedly different structural features with respect to the animal and microbial superfamilies, offer an opportunity to study how evolution has manipulated the chromophore photoisomerization to achieve adaptation. One question is related to the mechanism of such a reaction and how it differs from that of animal and microbial rhodopsins. To address this question, we use hundreds of quantum-classical trajectories to simulate the spectroscopically documented picosecond light-induced dynamics of a heliorhodopsin from the archaea thermoplasmatales archaeon (TaHeR). We show that, consistently with the observations, the trajectories reveal two excited state decay channels. However, inconsistently with previous hypotheses, only one channel is associated with the -C13C14- rotation of microbial rhodopsins while the second channel is characterized by the -C11C12- rotation typical of animal rhodopsins. The fact that such -C11C12- rotation is aborted upon decay and ground state relaxation, explains why illumination of TaHeR only produces the 13-cis isomer with a low quantum efficiency. We argue that the documented lack of regioselectivity in double-bond excited state twisting motion is the result of an "adaptation" that could be completely lost via specific residue substitutions modulating the steric hindrance experienced along the isomerization motion.
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- Riccardo Palombo
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Siena, Italy.
- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA.
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Siena, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA.
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Siena, Italy.
- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA.
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Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive membrane proteins of microorganisms that express diverse photobiological functions. All-trans-retinylidene Schiff base, the so-called all-trans-retinal, is a chromophore of microbial rhodopsins, which captures photons. It isomerizes into the 13-cis form upon photoexcitation. Isomerization of retinal leads to sequential conformational changes in the protein, giving rise to active states that exhibit biological functions. Despite the rapidly expanding diversity of microbial rhodopsin functions, the photochemical behaviors of retinal were considered to be common among them. However, the retinal of many recently discovered rhodopsins was found to exhibit new photochemical characteristics, such as highly red-shifted absorption, isomerization to 7-cis and 11-cis forms, and energy transfer from a secondary carotenoid chromophore to the retinal, which is markedly different from that established in canonical microbial rhodopsins. Here, I review new aspects of retinal found in novel microbial rhodopsins and highlight the emerging problems that need to be addressed to understand noncanonical retinal photochemistry.
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- Keiichi Inoue
- The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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Kojima K, Sudo Y. Convergent evolution of animal and microbial rhodopsins. RSC Adv 2023; 13:5367-5381. [PMID: 36793294 PMCID: PMC9923458 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra07073a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Rhodopsins, a family of photoreceptive membrane proteins, contain retinal as a chromophore and were firstly identified as reddish pigments from frog retina in 1876. Since then, rhodopsin-like proteins have been identified mainly from animal eyes. In 1971, a rhodopsin-like pigment was discovered from the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum and named bacteriorhodopsin. While it was believed that rhodopsin- and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins were expressed only in animal eyes and archaea, respectively, before the 1990s, a variety of rhodopsin-like proteins (called animal rhodopsins or opsins) and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins (called microbial rhodopsins) have been progressively identified from various tissues of animals and microorganisms, respectively. Here, we comprehensively introduce the research conducted on animal and microbial rhodopsins. Recent analysis has revealed that the two rhodopsin families have common molecular properties, such as the protein structure (i.e., 7-transmembrane structure), retinal structure (i.e., binding ability to cis- and trans-retinal), color sensitivity (i.e., UV- and visible-light sensitivities), and photoreaction (i.e., triggering structural changes by light and heat), more than what was expected at the early stages of rhodopsin research. Contrastingly, their molecular functions are distinctively different (e.g., G protein-coupled receptors and photoisomerases for animal rhodopsins and ion transporters and phototaxis sensors for microbial rhodopsins). Therefore, based on their similarities and dissimilarities, we propose that animal and microbial rhodopsins have convergently evolved from their distinctive origins as multi-colored retinal-binding membrane proteins whose activities are regulated by light and heat but independently evolved for different molecular and physiological functions in the cognate organism.
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- Keiichi Kojima
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Japan
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- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Japan
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Astashkin R, Kovalev K, Bukhdruker S, Vaganova S, Kuzmin A, Alekseev A, Balandin T, Zabelskii D, Gushchin I, Royant A, Volkov D, Bourenkov G, Koonin E, Engelhard M, Bamberg E, Gordeliy V. Structural insights into light-driven anion pumping in cyanobacteria. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6460. [PMID: 36309497 PMCID: PMC9617919 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34019-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Transmembrane ion transport is a key process in living cells. Active transport of ions is carried out by various ion transporters including microbial rhodopsins (MRs). MRs perform diverse functions such as active and passive ion transport, photo-sensing, and others. In particular, MRs can pump various monovalent ions like Na+, K+, Cl-, I-, NO3-. The only characterized MR proposed to pump sulfate in addition to halides belongs to the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 7509 and is named Synechocystis halorhodopsin (SyHR). The structural study of SyHR may help to understand what makes an MR pump divalent ions. Here we present the crystal structure of SyHR in the ground state, the structure of its sulfate-bound form as well as two photoreaction intermediates, the K and O states. These data reveal the molecular origin of the unique properties of the protein (exceptionally strong chloride binding and proposed pumping of divalent anions) and sheds light on the mechanism of anion release and uptake in cyanobacterial halorhodopsins. The unique properties of SyHR highlight its potential as an optogenetics tool and may help engineer different types of anion pumps with applications in optogenetics.
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- R. Astashkin
- grid.450307.50000 0001 0944 2786Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- grid.475756.20000 0004 0444 5410European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg unit c/o DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.5398.70000 0004 0641 6373European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoble, Grenoble, France ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XInstitute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XJuStruct: Jülich Center for Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XInstitute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XJuStruct: Jülich Center for Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- grid.18763.3b0000000092721542Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- grid.18763.3b0000000092721542Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XInstitute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XJuStruct: Jülich Center for Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- grid.434729.f0000 0004 0590 2900European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany
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- grid.18763.3b0000000092721542Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- grid.450307.50000 0001 0944 2786Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France ,grid.5398.70000 0004 0641 6373European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XInstitute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XJuStruct: Jülich Center for Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- grid.475756.20000 0004 0444 5410European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg unit c/o DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.419234.90000 0004 0604 5429National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
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- grid.418441.c0000 0004 0491 3333Department Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- grid.419494.50000 0001 1018 9466Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- grid.450307.50000 0001 0944 2786Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XInstitute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany ,grid.8385.60000 0001 2297 375XJuStruct: Jülich Center for Structural Biology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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de Grip WJ, Ganapathy S. Rhodopsins: An Excitingly Versatile Protein Species for Research, Development and Creative Engineering. Front Chem 2022; 10:879609. [PMID: 35815212 PMCID: PMC9257189 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.879609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The first member and eponym of the rhodopsin family was identified in the 1930s as the visual pigment of the rod photoreceptor cell in the animal retina. It was found to be a membrane protein, owing its photosensitivity to the presence of a covalently bound chromophoric group. This group, derived from vitamin A, was appropriately dubbed retinal. In the 1970s a microbial counterpart of this species was discovered in an archaeon, being a membrane protein also harbouring retinal as a chromophore, and named bacteriorhodopsin. Since their discovery a photogenic panorama unfolded, where up to date new members and subspecies with a variety of light-driven functionality have been added to this family. The animal branch, meanwhile categorized as type-2 rhodopsins, turned out to form a large subclass in the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors and are essential to multiple elements of light-dependent animal sensory physiology. The microbial branch, the type-1 rhodopsins, largely function as light-driven ion pumps or channels, but also contain sensory-active and enzyme-sustaining subspecies. In this review we will follow the development of this exciting membrane protein panorama in a representative number of highlights and will present a prospect of their extraordinary future potential.
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- Willem J. de Grip
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Department of Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
- Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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HwMR is a novel magnesium-associated protein. Biophys J 2022; 121:2781-2793. [PMID: 35690905 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Microbial rhodopsins (MRho) are vital proteins in Haloarchaea for solar light sensing in extreme living environments. Among them, Haloquadratum walsbyi (Hw) is a species known to survive high MgCl2 concentrations, with a total of three MRhos identified, including a high-acid-tolerance light-driven proton outward pump, HwBR, a chloride-insensitive chloride pump, HwHR, and a functionally unknown HwMR. Here, we showed that HwMR is the sole magnesium-sensitive MRho among all tested MRho proteins from Haloarchaea. We identified at least D84 as one of the key residues mediating such magnesium ion association in HwMR. Sequence analysis and molecular modeling suggested HwMR to have an extra H8 helix in the cytosolic region like those in signal-transduction-type MRho of deltarhodopsin-3 (dR-3) and Anabaena sensory rhodopsin (ASR). Further, HwMR showed a distinctly prolonged M-state formation under a high concentration of Mg2+. On the other hand, an H8 helix truncated mutant preserved photocycle kinetics like the wild type, but it led to missing M-state structure. Our findings clearly suggested not only that HwMR is a novel Mg2+-associated protein but that the association with both Mg2+ and the H8 domain stabilizes M-state formation in HwMR. We conclude that Mg2+ association and H8 are crucial in stabilizing HwMR M state, which is a well-known photoreceptor signaling state.
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La Greca M, Chen JL, Schubert L, Kozuch J, Berneiser T, Terpitz U, Heberle J, Schlesinger R. The Photoreaction of the Proton-Pumping Rhodopsin 1 From the Maize Pathogenic Basidiomycete Ustilago maydis. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:826990. [PMID: 35281268 PMCID: PMC8913941 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.826990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Microbial rhodopsins have recently been discovered in pathogenic fungi and have been postulated to be involved in signaling during the course of an infection. Here, we report on the spectroscopic characterization of a light-driven proton pump rhodopsin (UmRh1) from the smut pathogen Ustilago maydis, the causative agent of tumors in maize plants. Electrophysiology, time-resolved UV/Vis and vibrational spectroscopy indicate a pH-dependent photocycle. We also characterized the impact of the auxin hormone indole-3-acetic acid that was shown to influence the pump activity of UmRh1 on individual photocycle intermediates. A facile pumping activity test was established of UmRh1 expressed in Pichia pastoris cells, for probing proton pumping out of the living yeast cells during illumination. We show similarities and distinct differences to the well-known bacteriorhodopsin from archaea and discuss the putative role of UmRh1 in pathogenesis.
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- Mariafrancesca La Greca
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, Biocenter, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Genetic Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Ramona Schlesinger,
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Yasuda S, Akiyama T, Kojima K, Ueta T, Hayashi T, Ogasawara S, Nagatoishi S, Tsumoto K, Kunishima N, Sudo Y, Kinoshita M, Murata T. Development of an Outward Proton Pumping Rhodopsin with a New Record in Thermostability by Means of Amino Acid Mutations. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:1004-1015. [PMID: 35089040 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c08684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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We have developed a methodology for identifying further thermostabilizing mutations for an intrinsically thermostable membrane protein. The methodology comprises the following steps: (1) identifying thermostabilizing single mutations (TSSMs) for residues in the transmembrane region using our physics-based method; (2) identifying TSSMs for residues in the extracellular and intracellular regions, which are in aqueous environment, using an empirical force field FoldX; and (3) combining the TSSMs identified in steps (1) and (2) to construct multiple mutations. The methodology is illustrated for thermophilic rhodopsin whose apparent midpoint temperature of thermal denaturation Tm is ∼91.8 °C. The TSSMs previously identified in step (1) were F90K, F90R, and Y91I with ΔTm ∼5.6, ∼5.5, and ∼2.9 °C, respectively, and those in step (2) were V79K, T114D, A115P, and A116E with ΔTm ∼2.7, ∼4.2, ∼2.6, and ∼2.3 °C, respectively (ΔTm denotes the increase in Tm). In this study, we construct triple and quadruple mutants, F90K+Y91I+T114D and F90K+Y91I+V79K+T114D. The values of ΔTm for these multiple mutants are ∼11.4 and ∼13.5 °C, respectively. Tm of the quadruple mutant (∼105.3 °C) establishes a new record in a class of outward proton pumping rhodopsins. It is higher than Tm of Rubrobacter xylanophilus rhodopsin (∼100.8 °C) that was the most thermostable in the class before this study.
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- Satoshi Yasuda
- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.,Membrane Protein Research and Molecular Chirality Research Centers, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Interdisciplinary Program of Biomedical Engineering, Assistive Technology, and Art and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi 2-no-cho, Nishi-ku, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.,Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.,Membrane Protein Research and Molecular Chirality Research Centers, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.,Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- RIKEN RSC-Rigaku Collaboration Center, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5165, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.,Membrane Protein Research and Molecular Chirality Research Centers, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.,Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.,Membrane Protein Research and Molecular Chirality Research Centers, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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Pro219 is an electrostatic color determinant in the light-driven sodium pump KR2. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1185. [PMID: 34645937 PMCID: PMC8514524 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02684-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Color tuning in animal and microbial rhodopsins has attracted the interest of many researchers, as the color of their common retinal chromophores is modulated by the amino acid residues forming the chromophore cavity. Critical cavity amino acid residues are often called “color switches”, as the rhodopsin color is effectively tuned through their substitution. Well-known color switches are the L/Q and A/TS switches located in the C and G helices of the microbial rhodopsin structure respectively. Recently, we reported on a third G/P switch located in the F helix of the light-driven sodium pumps of KR2 and JsNaR causing substantial spectral red-shifts in the latter with respect to the former. In order to investigate the molecular-level mechanism driving such switching function, here we present an exhaustive mutation, spectroscopic and computational investigation of the P219X mutant set of KR2. To do so, we study the changes in the absorption band of the 19 possible mutants and construct, semi-automatically, the corresponding hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics models. We found that the P219X feature a red-shifted light absorption with the only exception of P219R. The analysis of the corresponding models indicate that the G/P switch induces red-shifting variations via electrostatic interactions, while replacement-induced chromophore geometrical (steric) distortions play a minor role. However, the same analysis indicates that the P219R blue-shifted variant has a more complex origin involving both electrostatic and steric changes accompanied by protonation state and hydrogen bond networks modifications. These results make it difficult to extract simple rules or formulate theories for predicting how a switch operates without considering the atomistic details and environmental consequences of the side chain replacement. Nakajima, Pedraza-González et al. provide a comprehensive investigation of amino acid mutations at position 219 of the sodium pump rhodopsin, KR2, and their role in the color tuning of the retinal chromophore. They prepared P219X (X= A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Y) mutants of KR2, and find that all mutants are red-shifted, except for P219R, highlighting its role as a color determinant in the light-driven pump KR2.
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Kawamura I, Seki H, Tajima S, Makino Y, Shigeta A, Okitsu T, Wada A, Naito A, Sudo Y. Structure of a retinal chromophore of dark-adapted middle rhodopsin as studied by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Biophys Physicobiol 2021; 18:177-185. [PMID: 34434690 PMCID: PMC8354847 DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v18.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Middle rhodopsin (MR) found from the archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi is evolutionarily located between two different types of rhodopsins, bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and sensory rhodopsin II (SRII). Some isomers of the chromophore retinal and the photochemical reaction of MR are markedly different from those of BR and SRII. In this study, to obtain the structural information regarding its active center (i.e., retinal), we subjected MR embedded in lipid bilayers to solid-state magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The analysis of the isotropic 13C chemical shifts of the retinal chromophore revealed the presence of three types of retinal configurations of dark-adapted MR: (13-trans, 15-anti (all-trans)), (13-cis, 15-syn), and 11-cis isomers. The higher field resonance of the 20-C methyl carbon in the all-trans retinal suggested that Trp182 in MR has an orientation that is different from that in other microbial rhodopsins, owing to the changes in steric hindrance associated with the 20-C methyl group in retinal. 13Cζ signals of Tyr185 in MR for all-trans and 13-cis, 15-syn isomers were discretely observed, representing the difference in the hydrogen bond strength of Tyr185. Further, 15N NMR analysis of the protonated Schiff base corresponding to the all-trans and 13-cis, 15-syn isomers in MR showed a strong electrostatic interaction with the counter ion. Therefore, the resulting structural information exhibited the property of stable retinal conformations of dark-adapted MR.
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- Izuru Kawamura
- Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan.,Graduate School of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan.,Present address: Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry for Life Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Hyogo 658-8558, Japan
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry for Life Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Hyogo 658-8558, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Microbial rhodopsins are diverse photoreceptive proteins containing a retinal chromophore and are found in all domains of cellular life and are even encoded in genomes of viruses. These rhodopsins make up two families: type 1 rhodopsins and the recently discovered heliorhodopsins. These families have seven transmembrane helices with similar structures but opposing membrane orientation. Microbial rhodopsins participate in a portfolio of light-driven energy and sensory transduction processes. In this review we present data collected over the last two decades about these rhodopsins and describe their diversity, functions, and biological and ecological roles. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 75 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Andrey Rozenberg
- Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel; ,
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- The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8581, Japan;
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan;
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel; ,
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A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:20574-20583. [PMID: 31548428 PMCID: PMC6789865 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907517116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Giant viruses are remarkable for their large genomes, often rivaling those of small bacteria, and for having genes thought exclusive to cellular life. Most isolated to date infect nonmarine protists, leaving their strategies and prevalence in marine environments largely unknown. Using eukaryotic single-cell metagenomics in the Pacific, we discovered a Mimiviridae lineage of giant viruses, which infects choanoflagellates, widespread protistan predators related to metazoans. The ChoanoVirus genomes are the largest yet from pelagic ecosystems, with 442 of 862 predicted proteins lacking known homologs. They are enriched in enzymes for modifying organic compounds, including degradation of chitin, an abundant polysaccharide in oceans, and they encode 3 divergent type-1 rhodopsins (VirR) with distinct evolutionary histories from those that capture sunlight in cellular organisms. One (VirRDTS) is similar to the only other putative rhodopsin from a virus (PgV) with a known host (a marine alga). Unlike the algal virus, ChoanoViruses encode the entire pigment biosynthesis pathway and cleavage enzyme for producing the required chromophore, retinal. We demonstrate that the rhodopsin shared by ChoanoViruses and PgV binds retinal and pumps protons. Moreover, our 1.65-Å resolved VirRDTS crystal structure and mutational analyses exposed differences from previously characterized type-1 rhodopsins, all of which come from cellular organisms. Multiple VirR types are present in metagenomes from across surface oceans, where they are correlated with and nearly as abundant as a canonical marker gene from Mimiviridae Our findings indicate that light-dependent energy transfer systems are likely common components of giant viruses of photosynthetic and phagotrophic unicellular marine eukaryotes.
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Shibukawa A, Kojima K, Nakajima Y, Nishimura Y, Yoshizawa S, Sudo Y. Photochemical Characterization of a New Heliorhodopsin from the Gram-Negative Eubacterium Bellilinea caldifistulae (BcHeR) and Comparison with Heliorhodopsin-48C12. Biochemistry 2019; 58:2934-2943. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Atsushi Shibukawa
- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8564, Japan
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8564, Japan
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8564, Japan
- Department of Natural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8563, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Red-shifting mutation of light-driven sodium-pump rhodopsin. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1993. [PMID: 31040285 PMCID: PMC6491443 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10000-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive membrane proteins that transport various ions using light energy. While they are widely used in optogenetics to optically control neuronal activity, rhodopsins that function with longer-wavelength light are highly demanded because of their low phototoxicity and high tissue penetration. Here, we achieve a 40-nm red-shift in the absorption wavelength of a sodium-pump rhodopsin (KR2) by altering dipole moment of residues around the retinal chromophore (KR2 P219T/S254A) without impairing its ion-transport activity. Structural differences in the chromophore of the red-shifted protein from that of the wildtype are observed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. QM/MM models generated with an automated protocol show that the changes in the electrostatic interaction between protein and chromophore induced by the amino-acid replacements, lowered the energy gap between the ground and the first electronically excited state. Based on these insights, a natural sodium pump with red-shifted absorption is identified from Jannaschia seosinensis. Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive and widely used in optogenetics for which they should preferable function with longer-wavelength light. Here, authors achieve a 40-nm red-shift in the absorption wavelength of a sodium-pump rhodopsin (KR2) by altering the distribution of the retinal chromophore.
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Ghanbarpour A, Nairat M, Nosrati M, Santos EM, Vasileiou C, Dantus M, Borhan B, Geiger JH. Mimicking Microbial Rhodopsin Isomerization in a Single Crystal. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:1735-1741. [PMID: 30580520 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b12493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin represents the simplest, and possibly most abundant, phototropic system requiring only a retinal-bound transmembrane protein to convert photons of light to an energy-generating proton gradient. The creation and interrogation of a microbial rhodopsin mimic, based on an orthogonal protein system, would illuminate the design elements required to generate new photoactive proteins with novel function. We describe a microbial rhodopsin mimic, created using a small soluble protein as a template, that specifically photoisomerizes all- trans to 13- cis retinal followed by thermal relaxation to the all- trans isomer, mimicking the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle, in a single crystal. The key element for selective isomerization is a tuned steric interaction between the chromophore and protein, similar to that seen in the microbial rhodopsins. It is further demonstrated that a single mutation converts the system to a protein photoswitch without chromophore photoisomerization or conformational change.
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- Alireza Ghanbarpour
- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Michigan State University , Department of Chemistry , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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Cassidy J, Paradisi F. Haloquadratum walsbyi Yields a Versatile, NAD +/NADP + Dual Affinity, Thermostable, Alcohol Dehydrogenase (HwADH). Mol Biotechnol 2018; 60:420-426. [PMID: 29654471 DOI: 10.1007/s12033-018-0083-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This study presents the first example of an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) from the halophilic archaeum Haloquadratum walsbyi (HwADH). A hexahistidine-tagged recombinant HwADH was heterologously overexpressed in Haloferax volcanii. HwADH was purified in one step and was found to be thermophilic with optimal activity at 65 °C. HwADH was active in the presence of 10% (v/v) organic solvent. The enzyme displayed dual cofactor specificity and a broad substrate scope, and maximum activity was detected with benzyl alcohol and 2-phenyl-1-propanol. HwADH accepted aromatic ketones, acetophenone and phenylacetone as substrates. The enzyme also accepted cyclohexanol and aromatic secondary alcohols, 1-phenylethanol and 4-phenyl-2-butanol. H. walsbyi may offer an excellent alternative to other archaeal sources to expand the toolbox of halophilic biocatalysts.
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- Jennifer Cassidy
- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, UK
- Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, UK.
- Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Takayama R, Kaneko A, Okitsu T, Tsunoda SP, Shimono K, Mizuno M, Kojima K, Tsukamoto T, Kandori H, Mizutani Y, Wada A, Sudo Y. Production of a Light-Gated Proton Channel by Replacing the Retinal Chromophore with Its Synthetic Vinylene Derivative. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:2857-2862. [PMID: 29750864 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Rhodopsin is widely distributed in organisms as a membrane-embedded photoreceptor protein, consisting of the apoprotein opsin and vitamin-A aldehyde retinal, A1-retinal and A2-retinal being the natural chromophores. Modifications of opsin (e.g., by mutations) have provided insight into the molecular mechanism of the light-induced functions of rhodopsins as well as providing tools in chemical biology to control cellular activity by light. Instead of the apoprotein opsin, in this study, we focused on the retinal chromophore and synthesized three vinylene derivatives of A2-retinal. One of them, C(14)-vinylene A2-retinal (14V-A2), was successfully incorporated into the opsin of a light-driven proton pump archaerhodopsin-3 (AR3). Electrophysiological experiments revealed that the opsin of AR3 (archaeopsin3, AO3) with 14V-A2 functions as a light-gated proton channel. The engineered proton channel showed characteristic photochemical properties, which are significantly different from those of AR3. Thus, we successfully produced a proton channel by replacing the chromophore of AR3.
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- Riho Takayama
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry for Life Science , Kobe Pharmaceutical University , Kobe 658-8558 , Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency , 4-1-8 Honcho , Kawaguchi , Saitama 332-0012 , Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Toho University , Funabashi 274-8510 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry , Graduate School of Science, Osaka University , Toyonaka 560-0043 , Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials , Nagoya Institute of Technology , Nagoya 466-8555 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry , Graduate School of Science, Osaka University , Toyonaka 560-0043 , Japan
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry for Life Science , Kobe Pharmaceutical University , Kobe 658-8558 , Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences , Okayama University , Okayama 700-8530 , Japan
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Microbial rhodopsins (MRs) are a large family of photoactive membrane proteins, found in microorganisms belonging to all kingdoms of life, with new members being constantly discovered. Among the MRs are light-driven proton, cation and anion pumps, light-gated cation and anion channels, and various photoreceptors. Due to their abundance and amenability to studies, MRs served as model systems for a great variety of biophysical techniques, and recently found a great application as optogenetic tools. While the basic aspects of microbial rhodopsins functioning have been known for some time, there is still a plenty of unanswered questions. This chapter presents and summarizes the available knowledge, focusing on the functional and structural studies.
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- Ivan Gushchin
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudniy, Russia.
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudniy, Russia.
- University of Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, Grenoble, France.
- Institute of Complex Systems (ICS), ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry, Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
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Kaneko A, Inoue K, Kojima K, Kandori H, Sudo Y. Conversion of microbial rhodopsins: insights into functionally essential elements and rational protein engineering. Biophys Rev 2017; 9:861-876. [PMID: 29178082 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-017-0335-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Technological progress has enabled the successful application of functional conversion to a variety of biological molecules, such as nucleotides and proteins. Such studies have revealed the functionally essential elements of these engineered molecules, which are difficult to characterize at the level of an individual molecule. The functional conversion of biological molecules has also provided a strategy for their rational and atomistic design. The engineered molecules can be used in studies to improve our understanding of their biological functions and to develop protein-based tools. In this review, we introduce the functional conversion of membrane-embedded photoreceptive retinylidene proteins (also called rhodopsins) and discuss these proteins mainly on the basis of results obtained from our own studies. This information provides insights into the molecular mechanism of light-induced protein functions and their use in optogenetics, a technology which involves the use of light to control biological activities.
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- Akimasa Kaneko
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.
- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.
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Nishimura T, Tamura F, Kobayashi S, Tanimoto Y, Hayashi F, Sudo Y, Iwasaki Y, Morigaki K. Hybrid Model Membrane Combining Micropatterned Lipid Bilayer and Hydrophilic Polymer Brush. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:5752-5759. [PMID: 28514175 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Substrate-supported planar lipid bilayers (SPBs) are being utilized as a versatile model system of the biological membrane. However, the proximity between the solid support and membrane limits utility of SPBs for the functional analyses of membrane proteins. Here, we present a model membrane that can enlarge the distance between the substrate surface and the membrane by combining a stable scaffold of polymerized lipid bilayer with a hydrophilic polymer brush. A micropatterned SPB was generated by the lithographic polymerization of diacetylene lipids and subsequent incorporation of natural (fluid) lipid bilayers. Hydrophilic polymer brush of poly-2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (poly(MPC)) was formed on the surface of polymeric bilayer by the in situ atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in aqueous solution, in the presence of embedded fluid lipid bilayers. A model membrane protein (Haloquadratum walsbyi bacteriorhodopsin: HwBR) could be reconstituted into the polymer brush-supported bilayers with significantly reduced immobile molecules. Furthermore, the polymer brush terminals could be functionalized by successively polymerizing MPC and 2-aminoethyl methacrylate (AMA). The reactive amine moiety of poly(AMA) enables to conjugate a wide range of biological molecules and surfaces to the membrane. The combination of micropatterned bilayer and polymer brush mimics the two- and three-dimensional structures of the biological membrane, providing a platform to assay membrane proteins in a truly biomimetic environment.
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University , 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University , 3-3-35 Yamatecho, Suita 564-8680, Japan
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Kanehara K, Yoshizawa S, Tsukamoto T, Sudo Y. A phylogenetically distinctive and extremely heat stable light-driven proton pump from the eubacterium Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941 T. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44427. [PMID: 28290523 PMCID: PMC5349596 DOI: 10.1038/srep44427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Rhodopsins are proteins that contain seven transmembrane domains with a chromophore retinal and that function as photoreceptors for light-energy conversion and light-signal transduction in a wide variety of organisms. Here we characterized a phylogenetically distinctive new rhodopsin from the thermophilic eubacterium Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941T that was isolated from thermally polluted water. Although R. xylanophilus rhodopsin (RxR) is from Actinobacteria, it is located between eukaryotic and archaeal rhodopsins in the phylogenetic tree. Escherichia coli cells expressing RxR showed a light-induced decrease in environmental pH and inhibition by a protonophore, indicating that it works as a light-driven outward proton pump. We characterized purified RxR spectroscopically, and showed that it has an absorption maximum at 541 nm and binds nearly 100% all-trans retinal. The pKa values for the protonated retinal Schiff base and its counterion were estimated to be 10.7 and 1.3, respectively. Time-resolved flash-photolysis experiments revealed the formation of a red-shifted intermediate. Of note, RxR showed an extremely high thermal stability in comparison with other proton pumping rhodopsins such as thermophilic rhodopsin TR (by 16-times) and bacteriorhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarum (HsBR, by 4-times).
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- Kanae Kanehara
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8564, Japan
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Broecker J, Klingel V, Ou WL, Balo AR, Kissick D, Ogata CM, Kuo A, Ernst OP. A Versatile System for High-Throughput In Situ X-ray Screening and Data Collection of Soluble and Membrane-Protein Crystals. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2016; 16:6318-6326. [PMID: 28261000 PMCID: PMC5328415 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Revised: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In recent years, in situ data collection has been a major focus of progress in protein crystallography. Here, we introduce the Mylar in situ method using Mylar-based sandwich plates that are inexpensive, easy to make and handle, and show significantly less background scattering than other setups. A variety of cognate holders for patches of Mylar in situ sandwich films corresponding to one or more wells makes the method robust and versatile, allows for storage and shipping of entire wells, and enables automated crystal imaging, screening, and goniometer-based X-ray diffraction data-collection at room temperature and under cryogenic conditions for soluble and membrane-protein crystals grown in or transferred to these plates. We validated the Mylar in situ method using crystals of the water-soluble proteins hen egg-white lysozyme and sperm whale myoglobin as well as the 7-transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin from Haloquadratum walsbyi. In conjunction with current developments at synchrotrons, this approach promises high-resolution structural studies of membrane proteins to become faster and more routine.
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- Jana Broecker
- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- E-mail:
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- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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J. Kissick
- GM/CA
at Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National
Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- GM/CA
at Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National
Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Chan SK, Kawaguchi H, Kubo H, Murakami M, Ihara K, Maki K, Kouyama T. Crystal Structure of the 11-cis Isomer of Pharaonis Halorhodopsin: Structural Constraints on Interconversions among Different Isomeric States. Biochemistry 2016; 55:4092-104. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Siu Kit Chan
- Department
of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department
of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department
of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department
of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Center
for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department
of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department
of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
- RIKEN Harima Branch, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, Japan
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Becker EA, Yao AI, Seitzer PM, Kind T, Wang T, Eigenheer R, Shao KSY, Yarov-Yarovoy V, Facciotti MT. A Large and Phylogenetically Diverse Class of Type 1 Opsins Lacking a Canonical Retinal Binding Site. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0156543. [PMID: 27327432 PMCID: PMC4915679 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 04/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Opsins are photosensitive proteins catalyzing light-dependent processes across the tree of life. For both microbial (type 1) and metazoan (type 2) opsins, photosensing depends upon covalent interaction between a retinal chromophore and a conserved lysine residue. Despite recent discoveries of potential opsin homologs lacking this residue, phylogenetic dispersal and functional significance of these abnormal sequences have not yet been investigated. We report discovery of a large group of putatively non-retinal binding opsins, present in a number of fungal and microbial genomes and comprising nearly 30% of opsins in the Halobacteriacea, a model clade for opsin photobiology. We report phylogenetic analyses, structural modeling, genomic context analysis and biochemistry, to describe the evolutionary relationship of these recently described proteins with other opsins, show that they are expressed and do not bind retinal in a canonical manner. Given these data, we propose a hypothesis that these abnormal opsin homologs may represent a novel family of sensory opsins which may be involved in taxis response to one or more non-light stimuli. If true, this finding would challenge our current understanding of microbial opsins as a light-specific sensory family, and provides a potential analogy with the highly diverse signaling capabilities of the eukaryotic G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), of which metazoan type 2 opsins are a light-specific sub-clade.
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- Erin A. Becker
- Genome Center, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
- Microbiology Graduate Group, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
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- Genome Center, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
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- Genome Center, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
- Proteome Software, 1340 SW Bertha Blvd., Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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- Genome Center, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
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- Genome Center, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
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- California Department of Food and Agriculture, 1220 N St., Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States of America
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- William’s College, 880 Main St., Williamstown, MA, 01267, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
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- Genome Center, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
- Microbiology Graduate Group, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, One Shields Ave., University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, United States of America
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Photoreceptors mapping from past history till date. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2016; 162:223-231. [PMID: 27387671 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The critical source of information in plants is light, which is perceived by receptors present in plants and animals. Receptors present in plant and animal system regulate important processes, and knowing the chromophores and signalling domains for each receptor could pave a way to trace out links between these receptors. The signalling mechanism for each receptor will give insight knowledge. This review has focussed on the photoreceptors from past history till date, that have evolved in the plant as well as in the animal system (to lesser extent). We have also focussed our attention on finding the links between the receptors by showing the commonalities as well as the differences between them, and also tried to trace out the links with the help of chromophores and signalling domain. Several photoreceptors have been traced out, which share similarity in the chromophore as well as in the signalling domain, which indicate towards the evolution of photoreceptors from one another. For instance, cryptochrome has been found to evolve three times from CPD photolyase as well as evolution of different types of phytochrome is a result of duplication and divergence. In addition, similarity between the photoreceptors suggested towards evolution from one another. This review has also discussed possible mechanism for each receptor i.e. how they regulate developmental processes and involve what kinds of regulators and also gives an insight on signalling mechanisms by these receptors. This review could also be a new initiative in the study of UVR8 associated studies.
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Sudo Y, Yoshizawa S. Functional and Photochemical Characterization of a Light-Driven Proton Pump from the Gammaproteobacterium Pantoea vagans. Photochem Photobiol 2016; 92:420-7. [PMID: 26970049 DOI: 10.1111/php.12585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Accepted: 02/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Photoactive retinal proteins are widely distributed throughout the domains of the microbial world (i.e., bacteria, archaea, and eukarya). Here we describe three retinal proteins belonging to a phylogenetic clade with a unique DTG motif. Light-induced decrease in the environmental pH and its inhibition by carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone revealed that these retinal proteins function as light-driven outward electrogenic proton pumps. We further characterized one of these proteins, Pantoea vagans rhodopsin (PvR), spectroscopically. Visible spectroscopy and high-performance liquid chromatography revealed that PvR has an absorption maximum at 538 nm with the retinal chromophore predominantly in the all-trans form (>90%) under both dark and light conditions. We estimated the pKa values of the protonated Schiff base of the retinal chromophore and its counterion as approximately 13.5 and 2.1, respectively, by using pH titration experiments, and the photochemical reaction cycle of PvR was measured by time-resolved flash-photolysis in the millisecond timeframe. We observed a blue-shifted and a red-shifted intermediate, which we assigned as M-like and O-like intermediates, respectively. Decay of the M-like intermediate was highly sensitive to environmental pH, suggesting that proton uptake is coupled to decay of the M-like intermediate. From these results, we propose a putative model for the photoreaction of PvR.
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- Yuki Sudo
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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Sudo Y. [Structural and Functional Studies on Photoactive Retinal Proteins: Light Becomes Drugs with Proteins]. YAKUGAKU ZASSHI 2016; 136:185-9. [PMID: 26831791 DOI: 10.1248/yakushi.15-00229-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Retinal proteins possess vitamin A aldehyde (retinal) as a chromophore within seven transmembrane α-helices. Visible light absorption of them triggers trans-cis photoisomerization of the retinal chromophore and induces structural changes in the protein moiety, resulting in a variety of biological functions such as vision, ion transportation, and photosensing. Environmental genomics revealed that retinal proteins are widely distributed through all three biological kingdoms, eukarya, bacteria, and archaea, indicating the biological significance of their light energy conversion. In addition to their biological aspect, retinal proteins have become a focus of interest in part because of applications for optogenetics. On the basis of our results and other findings, we highlight the recent progress in structural and functional studies on retinal proteins.
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- Yuki Sudo
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University
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Kurihara M, Sudo Y. Microbial rhodopsins: wide distribution, rich diversity and great potential. Biophys Physicobiol 2015; 12:121-9. [PMID: 27493861 PMCID: PMC4736836 DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.12.0_121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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One of the major topics in biophysics and physicobiology is to understand and utilize biological functions using various advanced techniques. Taking advantage of the photoreactivity of the seven-transmembrane rhodopsin protein family has been actively investigated by a variety of methods. Rhodopsins serve as models for membrane-embedded proteins, for photoactive proteins and as a fundamental tool for optogenetics, a new technology to control biological activity with light. In this review, we summarize progress of microbial rhodopsin research from the viewpoint of distribution, diversity and potential.
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- Marie Kurihara
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Molecular bases for the selection of the chromophore of animal rhodopsins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:15297-302. [PMID: 26607446 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510262112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The functions of microbial and animal rhodopsins are triggered by the isomerization of their all-trans and 11-cis retinal chromophores, respectively. To lay the molecular basis driving the evolutionary transition from the all-trans to the 11-cis chromophore, multiconfigurational quantum chemistry is used to compare the isomerization mechanisms of the sensory rhodopsin from the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 (ASR) and of the bovine rhodopsin (Rh). It is found that, despite their evolutionary distance, these eubacterial and vertebrate rhodopsins start to isomerize via distinct implementations of the same bicycle-pedal mechanism originally proposed by Warshel [Warshel A (1976) Nature 260:678-683]. However, by following the electronic structure changes of ASR (featuring the all-trans chromophore) during the isomerization, we find that ASR enters a region of degeneracy between the first and second excited states not found in Rh (featuring the 11-cis chromophore). We show that such degeneracy is modulated by the preorganized structure of the chromophore and by the position of the reactive double bond. It is argued that the optimization of the electronic properties of the chromophore, which affects the photoisomerization efficiency and the thermal isomerization barrier, provided a key factor for the emergence of the striking amino acid sequence divergence observed between the microbial and animal rhodopsins.
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Doi S, Mori A, Tsukamoto T, Reissig L, Ihara K, Sudo Y. Structural and functional roles of the N- and C-terminal extended modules in channelrhodopsin-1. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2015; 14:1628-36. [PMID: 26098533 DOI: 10.1039/c5pp00213c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Channelrhodopsins have become a focus of interest because of their ability to control neural activity by light, used in a technology called optogenetics. The channelrhodopsin in the eukaryote Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CrChR-1) is a light-gated cation channel responsible for motility changes upon photo-illumination and a member of the membrane-embedded retinal protein family. Recent crystal structure analysis revealed that CrChR-1 has unique extended modules both at its N- and C-termini compared to other microbial retinal proteins. This study reports the first successful expression of a ChR-1 variant in Escherichia coli as a holoprotein: the ChR-1 variant lacking both the N- and C-termini (CrChR-1_82-308). However, compared to ChR-1 having the extended modules (CrChR-1_1-357), truncation of the termini greatly altered the absorption maximum and photochemical properties, including the pKa values of its charged residues around the chromophore, the reaction rates in the photocycle and the photo-induced ion channeling activity. The results of some experiments regarding ion transport activity suggest that CrChR-1_82-308 has a proton channeling activity even in the dark. On the basis of these results, we discuss the structural and functional roles of the N- and C-terminal extended modules in CrChR-1.
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- Satoko Doi
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.
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Pfeiffer F, Oesterhelt D. A manual curation strategy to improve genome annotation: application to a set of haloarchael genomes. Life (Basel) 2015; 5:1427-44. [PMID: 26042526 PMCID: PMC4500146 DOI: 10.3390/life5021427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Revised: 05/22/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Genome annotation errors are a persistent problem that impede research in the biosciences. A manual curation effort is described that attempts to produce high-quality genome annotations for a set of haloarchaeal genomes (Halobacterium salinarum and Hbt. hubeiense, Haloferax volcanii and Hfx. mediterranei, Natronomonas pharaonis and Nmn. moolapensis, Haloquadratum walsbyi strains HBSQ001 and C23, Natrialba magadii, Haloarcula marismortui and Har. hispanica, and Halohasta litchfieldiae). Genomes are checked for missing genes, start codon misassignments, and disrupted genes. Assignments of a specific function are preferably based on experimentally characterized homologs (Gold Standard Proteins). To avoid overannotation, which is a major source of database errors, we restrict annotation to only general function assignments when support for a specific substrate assignment is insufficient. This strategy results in annotations that are resistant to the plethora of errors that compromise public databases. Annotation consistency is rigorously validated for ortholog pairs from the genomes surveyed. The annotation is regularly crosschecked against the UniProt database to further improve annotations and increase the level of standardization. Enhanced genome annotations are submitted to public databases (EMBL/GenBank, UniProt), to the benefit of the scientific community. The enhanced annotations are also publically available via HaloLex.
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- Friedhelm Pfeiffer
- Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemisty, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried 82152, Germany.
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- Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemisty, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried 82152, Germany.
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Gomariz M, Martínez-García M, Santos F, Constantino M, Meseguer I, Antón J. Retinal-binding proteins mirror prokaryotic dynamics in multipond solar salterns. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:514-26. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2014] [Revised: 10/30/2014] [Accepted: 11/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- María Gomariz
- Department of Materials, Optics and Electronics; University Miguel Hernández of Elche; Alicante 03202 Spain
- Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology; University of Alicante; Alicante 03080 Spain
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- Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology; University of Alicante; Alicante 03080 Spain
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- Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology; University of Alicante; Alicante 03080 Spain
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- Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology; University of Alicante; Alicante 03080 Spain
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- Department of Materials, Optics and Electronics; University Miguel Hernández of Elche; Alicante 03202 Spain
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- Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology; University of Alicante; Alicante 03080 Spain
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Tsukamoto T, Demura M, Sudo Y. Irreversible trimer to monomer transition of thermophilic rhodopsin upon thermal stimulation. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:12383-94. [PMID: 25279934 DOI: 10.1021/jp507374q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Assembly is one of the keys to understand biological molecules, and it takes place in spatial and temporal domains upon stimulation. Microbial rhodopsin (also called retinal protein) is a membrane-embedded protein that has a retinal chromophore within seven-transmembrane α-helices and shows homo-, di-, tri-, penta-, and hexameric assemblies. Those assemblies are closely related to critical physiological properties such as stabilizing the protein structure and regulating their photoreaction dynamics. Here we investigated the assembly and disassembly of thermophilic rhodopsin (TR), which is a novel proton-pumping rhodopsin derived from a thermophile living at 75 °C. TR was characterized using size-exclusion chromatography and circular dichroism spectroscopy, and formed a trimer at 25 °C, but irreversibly dissociated into monomers upon thermal stimulation. The transition temperature was estimated to be 68 °C. The irreversible nature made it possible to investigate the photochemical properties of both the trimer and the monomer independently. Compared with the trimer, the absorption maximum of the monomer is blue-shifted by 6 nm without any changes in the retinal composition, pKa value for the counterion or the sequence of the proton movement. The photocycling rate of the monomeric TR was similar to that of the trimeric TR. A similar trimer-monomer transition upon thermal stimulation was observed for another eubacterial rhodopsin GR but not for the archaeal rhodopsins AR3 and HwBR, suggesting that the transition is conserved in bacterial rhodopsins. Thus, the thermal stimulation of TR induces the irreversible disassembly of the trimer.
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- Takashi Tsukamoto
- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University , 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Zhang Z, Jin Z, Zhao Y, Zhang Z, Li R, Xiao J, Wu J. Systematic study on G-protein couple receptor prototypes: did they really evolve from prokaryotic genes? IET Syst Biol 2014; 8:154-61. [PMID: 25075528 PMCID: PMC8687355 DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2013.0037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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G‐protein couple receptor (GPCR) is one of the most striking examples of signalling proteins and it is only observed in eukaryotes. Based on various GPCR identification methods and classification systems, several evolutionary presumptions of different GPCR families have been reported. However, the prototype of GPCR still limits our knowledge. By investigating its structure and domain variance, the authors propose that GPCR might be evolved from prokaryotic world. The results given by the authors indicate that metabotropic glutamate receptor family would be the ancestor of GPCR. Phylogenetic analysis hints that one of metabotropic glutamate receptor GABA is possibly formed and evolved from the ancient chemical union of bacteriorhodopsin and periplasmic binding protein. The results obtained by the authors also unprecedentedly demonstrate that specific domains and identical structures are shown in each type of GPCR, which provides unique opportunities for future strategies on GPCR orphans’ prediction and classification.
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- Zaichao Zhang
- College of Life Science, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Supercomputing Center, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4, South Four Street Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1-7, Beichen W Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 100101
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1-7, Beichen W Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 100101
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1-7, Beichen W Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 100101
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1-7, Beichen W Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 100101.
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Rozin R, Wand A, Jung KH, Ruhman S, Sheves M. pH Dependence of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin: Retinal Isomer Composition, Rate of Dark Adaptation, and Photochemistry. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:8995-9006. [DOI: 10.1021/jp504688y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Rinat Rozin
- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Institute
of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department
of Life Science and Institute of Biological Interfaces, Sogang University, Shinsu-Dong 1, Mapo-Gu, Seoul 121-742, South Korea
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- Institute
of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Álvarez R, Vaz B, Gronemeyer H, de Lera ÁR. Functions, therapeutic applications, and synthesis of retinoids and carotenoids. Chem Rev 2013; 114:1-125. [PMID: 24266866 DOI: 10.1021/cr400126u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Rosana Álvarez
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Centro de Investigación Biomédica (CINBIO), and Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Vigo (IBIV), Universidade de Vigo , 36310 Vigo, Spain
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Frassanito AM, Barsanti L, Passarelli V, Evangelista V, Gualtieri P. A second rhodopsin-like protein in Cyanophora paradoxa: gene sequence and protein expression in a cell-free system. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2013; 125:188-93. [PMID: 23851421 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2013.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2013] [Revised: 06/07/2013] [Accepted: 06/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Here we report the identification and expression of a second rhodopsin-like protein in the alga Cyanophora paradoxa (Glaucophyta), named Cyanophopsin_2. This new protein was identified due to a serendipity event, since the RACE reaction performed to complete the sequence of Cyanophopsin_1, (the first rhodopsin-like protein of C. paradoxa identified in 2009 by our group), amplified a 619 bp sequence corresponding to a portion of a new gene of the same protein family. The full sequence consists of 1175 bp consisting of 849 bp coding DNA sequence and 4 introns of 326 bp. The protein is characterized by an N-terminal region of 47 amino acids, followed by a region with 7 α-helices of 213 amino acids and a C-terminal region of 22 amino acids. This protein showed high identity with Cyanophopsin_1 and other rhodopsin-like proteins of Archea, Bacteria, Fungi and Algae. Cyanophosin_2 (CpR2) was expressed in a cell-free expression system, and characterized by means of absorption spectroscopy.
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Guzzetti KA, Brizuela AB, Romano E, Brandán SA. Structural and vibrational study on zwitterions of l-threonine in aqueous phase using the FT-Raman and SCRF calculations. J Mol Struct 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2013.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tsukamoto T, Inoue K, Kandori H, Sudo Y. Thermal and spectroscopic characterization of a proton pumping rhodopsin from an extreme thermophile. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:21581-92. [PMID: 23740255 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.479394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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So far retinylidene proteins (∼rhodopsin) have not been discovered in thermophilic organisms. In this study we investigated and characterized a microbial rhodopsin derived from the extreme thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus, which lives in a hot spring at around 75 °C. The gene for the retinylidene protein, named thermophilic rhodopsin (TR), was chemically synthesized with codon optimization. The codon optimized TR protein was functionally expressed in the cell membranes of Escherichia coli cells and showed active proton transport upon photoillumination. Spectroscopic measurements revealed that the purified TR bound only all-trans-retinal as a chromophore and showed an absorption maximum at 530 nm. In addition, TR exhibited both photocycle kinetics and pH-dependent absorption changes, which are characteristic of rhodopsins. Of note, time-dependent thermal denaturation experiments revealed that TR maintained its absorption even at 75 °C, and the denaturation rate constant of TR was much lower than those of other proton pumping rhodopsins such as archaerhodopsin-3 (200 ×), Haloquadratum walsbyi bacteriorhodopsin (by 10-times), and Gloeobacter rhodopsin (100 ×). Thus, these results suggest that microbial rhodopsins are also distributed among thermophilic organisms and have high stability. TR should allow the investigation of the molecular mechanisms of ion transport and protein folding.
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- Takashi Tsukamoto
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Inoue K, Tsukamoto T, Sudo Y. Molecular and evolutionary aspects of microbial sensory rhodopsins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1837:562-77. [PMID: 23732219 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2013] [Revised: 05/14/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Retinal proteins (~rhodopsins) are photochemically reactive membrane-embedded proteins, with seven transmembrane α-helices which bind the chromophore retinal (vitamin A aldehyde). They are widely distributed through all three biological kingdoms, eukarya, bacteria and archaea, indicating the biological significance of the retinal proteins. Light absorption by the retinal proteins triggers a photoisomerization of the chromophore, leading to the biological function, light-energy conversion or light-signal transduction. This article reviews molecular and evolutionary aspects of the light-signal transduction by microbial sensory receptors and their related proteins. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Retinal Proteins - You can teach an old dog new tricks.
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- Keiichi Inoue
- Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan; Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan; Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan; Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Mori A, Yagasaki J, Homma M, Reissig L, Sudo Y. Investigation of the chromophore binding cavity in the 11-cis acceptable microbial rhodopsin MR. Chem Phys 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2012.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Sudo Y, Okazaki A, Ono H, Yagasaki J, Sugo S, Kamiya M, Reissig L, Inoue K, Ihara K, Kandori H, Takagi S, Hayashi S. A blue-shifted light-driven proton pump for neural silencing. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:20624-32. [PMID: 23720753 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.475533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Ion-transporting rhodopsins are widely utilized as optogenetic tools both for light-induced neural activation and silencing. The most studied representative is Bacteriorhodopsin (BR), which absorbs green/red light (∼570 nm) and functions as a proton pump. Upon photoexcitation, BR induces a hyperpolarization across the membrane, which, if incorporated into a nerve cell, results in its neural silencing. In this study, we show that several residues around the retinal chromophore, which are completely conserved among BR homologs from the archaea, are involved in the spectral tuning in a BR homolog (HwBR) and that the combination mutation causes a large spectral blue shift (λmax = 498 nm) while preserving the robust pumping activity. Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations revealed that, compared with the wild type, the β-ionone ring of the chromophore in the mutant is rotated ∼130° because of the lack of steric hindrance between the methyl groups of the retinal and the mutated residues, resulting in the breakage of the π conjugation system on the polyene chain of the retinal. By the same mutations, similar spectral blue shifts are also observed in another BR homolog, archearhodopsin-3 (also called Arch). The color variant of archearhodopsin-3 could be successfully expressed in the neural cells of Caenorhabditis elegans, and illumination with blue light (500 nm) led to the effective locomotory paralysis of the worms. Thus, we successfully produced a blue-shifted proton pump for neural silencing.
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- Yuki Sudo
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
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Ser(262) determines the chloride-dependent colour tuning of a new halorhodopsin from Haloquadratum walsbyi. Biosci Rep 2013; 32:501-9. [PMID: 22716305 PMCID: PMC3475450 DOI: 10.1042/bsr20120054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Light is an important environmental signal for all organisms on earth because it is essential for physiological signalling and the regulation of most biological systems. Halophiles found in salt-saturated ponds encode various archaeal rhodopsins and thereby harvest various wavelengths of light either for ion transportation or as sensory mediators. HR (halorhodopsin), one of the microbial rhodopsins, senses yellow light and transports chloride or other halides into the cytoplasm to maintain the osmotic balance during cell growth, and it exists almost ubiquitously in all known halobacteria. To date, only two HRs, isolated from HsHR (Halobacterium salinarum HR) and NpHR (Natronomonas pharaonis HR), have been characterized. In the present study, two new HRs, HmHR (Haloarcula marismortui HR) and HwHR (Haloquadratum walsbyi HR), were functionally overexpressed in Escherichia coli, and the maximum absorbance (λmax) of the purified proteins, the light-driven chloride uptake and the chloride-binding affinity were measured. The results showed them to have similar properties to two HRs reported previously. However, the λmax of HwHR is extremely consistent in a wide range of salt/chloride concentrations, which had not been observed previously. A structural-based sequence alignment identified a single serine residue at 262 in HwHR, which is typically a conserved alanine in all other known HRs. A Ser262 to alanine replacement in HwHR eliminated the chloride-independent colour tuning, whereas an Ala246 to serine mutagenesis in HsHR transformed it to have chloride-independent colour tuning similar to that of HwHR. Thus Ser262 is a key residue for the mechanism of chloride-dependent colour tuning in HwHR.
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Furutani Y, Okitsu T, Reissig L, Mizuno M, Homma M, Wada A, Mizutani Y, Sudo Y. Large Spectral Change due to Amide Modes of a β-Sheet upon the Formation of an Early Photointermediate of Middle Rhodopsin. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:3449-58. [DOI: 10.1021/jp308765t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yuji Furutani
- Department of Life and Coordination-Complex
Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi,
Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Organic Chemistry
for Life Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1
Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Graduate School of Organic Chemistry
for Life Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1
Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi,
Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
- Division of Biological Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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Riedel T, Gómez-Consarnau L, Tomasch J, Martin M, Jarek M, González JM, Spring S, Rohlfs M, Brinkhoff T, Cypionka H, Göker M, Fiebig A, Klein J, Goesmann A, Fuhrman JA, Wagner-Döbler I. Genomics and physiology of a marine flavobacterium encoding a proteorhodopsin and a xanthorhodopsin-like protein. PLoS One 2013; 8:e57487. [PMID: 23526944 PMCID: PMC3587595 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2012] [Accepted: 01/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Proteorhodopsin (PR) photoheterotrophy in the marine flavobacterium Dokdonia sp. PRO95 has previously been investigated, showing no growth stimulation in the light at intermediate carbon concentrations. Here we report the genome sequence of strain PRO95 and compare it to two other PR encoding Dokdonia genomes: that of strain 4H-3-7-5 which shows the most similar genome, and that of strain MED134 which grows better in the light under oligotrophic conditions. Our genome analysis revealed that the PRO95 genome as well as the 4H-3-7-5 genome encode a protein related to xanthorhodopsins. The genomic environment and phylogenetic distribution of this gene suggest that it may have frequently been recruited by lateral gene transfer. Expression analyses by RT-PCR and direct mRNA-sequencing showed that both rhodopsins and the complete β-carotene pathway necessary for retinal production are transcribed in PRO95. Proton translocation measurements showed enhanced proton pump activity in response to light, supporting that one or both rhodopsins are functional. Genomic information and carbon source respiration data were used to develop a defined cultivation medium for PRO95, but reproducible growth always required small amounts of yeast extract. Although PRO95 contains and expresses two rhodopsin genes, light did not stimulate its growth as determined by cell numbers in a nutrient poor seawater medium that mimics its natural environment, confirming previous experiments at intermediate carbon concentrations. Starvation or stress conditions might be needed to observe the physiological effect of light induced energy acquisition.
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- Thomas Riedel
- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Yamashita H, Inoue K, Shibata M, Uchihashi T, Sasaki J, Kandori H, Ando T. Role of trimer-trimer interaction of bacteriorhodopsin studied by optical spectroscopy and high-speed atomic force microscopy. J Struct Biol 2013; 184:2-11. [PMID: 23462099 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2012] [Revised: 12/22/2012] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) trimers form a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice in the purple membrane of Halobacterium salinarum. However, the physiological significance of forming the lattice has long been elusive. Here, we study this issue by comparing properties of assembled and non-assembled bR trimers using directed mutagenesis, high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), optical spectroscopy, and a proton pumping assay. First, we show that the bonds formed between W12 and F135 amino acid residues are responsible for trimer-trimer association that leads to lattice assembly; the lattice is completely disrupted in both W12I and F135I mutants. HS-AFM imaging reveals that both crystallized D96N and non-crystallized D96N/W12I mutants undergo a large conformational change (i.e., outward E-F loop displacement) upon light-activation. However, lattice disruption significantly reduces the rate of conformational change under continuous light illumination. Nevertheless, the quantum yield of M-state formation, measured by low-temperature UV-visible spectroscopy, and proton pumping efficiency are unaffected by lattice disruption. From these results, we conclude that trimer-trimer association plays essential roles in providing bound retinal with an appropriate environment to maintain its full photo-reactivity and in maintaining the natural photo-reaction pathway.
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- Hayato Yamashita
- Department of Physics, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
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Fu HY, Lu YH, Yi HP, Yang CS. A transducer for microbial sensory rhodopsin that adopts GTG as a start codon is identified in Haloarcula marismortui. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2013; 121:15-22. [PMID: 23474528 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2013.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2012] [Revised: 01/17/2013] [Accepted: 02/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Microbial sensory rhodopsins are known to mediate phototaxis, and all of the known sensory rhodopsins execute this function with a specific cognate transducer that has two-transmembrane (2-TM) regions. In the genome of Haloarcula marismortui, a total of six rhodopsin genes were annotated, and we previously showed three of them to be the ion type and suggested the other three as sensory type, even though the candidate transducer gene, htr, for HmSRI was missing the 2-TM region that is found in all of the other known transducers. Here we showed this htr gene featured a preceding 2-TM region when the alternative start codon GTG located 291 nucleotides upstream of the original annotated open reading frame (ORF) was introduced and it is named as htrI in this study. Overexpression of HmHtrI exhibited it existed as a membrane protein and several biophysical assays confirmed it functionally interacted with HmSRI. Together with our previous reverse-transcriptase-PCR results and phototaxis measurements, the new ORF of original predicted soluble htr gene product was a membrane protein with a 2-TM region, HmHtrI; and it serves as the cognate transducer for HmSRI. HmHtrI therefore is the first transducer for the sensory rhodopsin adopted start codon other than ATG.
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- Hsu-Yuan Fu
- Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, 1, Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 4, 10617 Taipei, Taiwan.
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Irieda H, Morita T, Maki K, Homma M, Aiba H, Sudo Y. Photo-induced regulation of the chromatic adaptive gene expression by Anabaena sensory rhodopsin. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:32485-93. [PMID: 22872645 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.390864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Rhodopsin molecules are photochemically reactive membrane-embedded proteins, with seven transmembrane α-helices, which bind the chromophore retinal (vitamin A aldehyde). They are roughly divided into two groups according to their basic functions: (i) ion transporters such as proton pumps, chloride pumps, and cation channels; and (ii) photo-sensors such as sensory rhodopsin from microbes and visual pigments from animals. Anabaena sensory rhodopsin (ASR), found in 2003 in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120, is categorized as a microbial sensory rhodopsin. To investigate the function of ASR in vivo, ASR and the promoter sequence of the pigment protein phycocyanin were co-introduced into Escherichia coli cells with the reporter gene crp. The result clearly showed that ASR functions as a repressor of the CRP protein expression and that this is fully inhibited by the light activation of ASR, suggesting that ASR would directly regulate the transcription of crp. The repression is also clearly inhibited by the truncation of the C-terminal region of ASR, or mutations on the C-terminal Arg residues, indicating the functional importance of the C-terminal region. Thus, our results demonstrate a novel function of rhodopsin molecules and raise the possibility that the membrane-spanning protein ASR could work as a transcriptional factor. In the future, the ASR activity could be utilized as a tool for arbitrary protein expression in vivo regulated by visible light.
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- Hiroki Irieda
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Lynch EA, Langille MGI, Darling A, Wilbanks EG, Haltiner C, Shao KSY, Starr MO, Teiling C, Harkins TT, Edwards RA, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT. Sequencing of seven haloarchaeal genomes reveals patterns of genomic flux. PLoS One 2012; 7:e41389. [PMID: 22848480 PMCID: PMC3404096 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2012] [Accepted: 06/20/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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We report the sequencing of seven genomes from two haloarchaeal genera, Haloferax and Haloarcula. Ease of cultivation and the existence of well-developed genetic and biochemical tools for several diverse haloarchaeal species make haloarchaea a model group for the study of archaeal biology. The unique physiological properties of these organisms also make them good candidates for novel enzyme discovery for biotechnological applications. Seven genomes were sequenced to ∼20×coverage and assembled to an average of 50 contigs (range 5 scaffolds-168 contigs). Comparisons of protein-coding gene compliments revealed large-scale differences in COG functional group enrichment between these genera. Analysis of genes encoding machinery for DNA metabolism reveals genera-specific expansions of the general transcription factor TATA binding protein as well as a history of extensive duplication and horizontal transfer of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Insights gained from this study emphasize the importance of haloarchaea for investigation of archaeal biology.
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- Erin A. Lynch
- Microbiology Graduate Group, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Microbiology Graduate Group, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
- Department of Forensic Science, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Davis Senior High School, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
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- Microbiology Graduate Group, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (MTF); (JAE)
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- Microbiology Graduate Group, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (MTF); (JAE)
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Inoue K, Reissig L, Sakai M, Kobayashi S, Homma M, Fujii M, Kandori H, Sudo Y. Absorption Spectra and Photochemical Reactions in a Unique Photoactive Protein, Middle Rhodopsin MR. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:5888-99. [DOI: 10.1021/jp302357m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Keiichi Inoue
- Department of Frontier
Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555,
Japan
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- Division of Biological
Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho,
Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Division of Biological
Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Division of Biological
Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho,
Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Department of Frontier
Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555,
Japan
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- Division of Biological
Science,
Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi,
Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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