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. 1994 Sep;67(3):1173–1178. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(94)80585-5

Two progressive substrates of the M-intermediate can be identified in glucose-embedded, wild-type bacteriorhodopsin.

J Vonck 1, B G Han 1, F Burkard 1, G A Perkins 1, R M Glaeser 1
PMCID: PMC1225472  PMID: 7811930

Abstract

Glucose-embedded bacteriorhodopsin shows M-intermediates with different Amide I infrared bands when samples are illuminated at 240 or 260 K, in contrast with fully hydrated samples where a single M-intermediate is formed at all temperatures. In hydrated, but not in glucose-embedded specimens, the N intermediate is formed together with M at 260 K. Both Fourier transform infrared and electron diffraction data from glucose-embedded bacteriorhodopsin suggest that at 260 K a mixture is formed of the M-state that is trapped at 240 K, and a different M-intermediate (MN) that is also formed by mutant forms of bacteriorhodopsin that lack a carboxyl group at the 96 position, necessary for the M to N transition. The fact that an MN species is trapped in glucose-embedded, wild-type bacteriorhodopsin suggests that the glucose samples lack functionally important water molecules that are needed for the proton transfer aspartate 96 to the Schiff base (and, thus, to form the N-intermediate); thus, aspartate 96 is rendered ineffective as a proton donor.

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