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. 1976 Oct;16(10):1183–1200. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(76)85767-0

Effects of light adaptation on the purple membrane structure of Halobacterium halobium.

B Becher, J Y Cassim
PMCID: PMC1334932  PMID: 963198

Abstract

Absorption, circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion of the bacteriorhodopsin containing purple membrane form Halobacterium halobium were studied in regard to the structural stability of this membrane during the photoisomerization of the retinal of the bacteriorhodopsin from the 13-cis to the all-trans configuration. The following conclusions were reached: (a) the macromolecular structure (protein-protein interaction which may result in the possible exciton interaction of the retinal pi-pi* (NV1) transition moments and protein-lipid interaction) are not significantly altered, (b) possibilities of delocalized conformation changes of the apoprotein involving secondary and/or tertiary structure can be ruled out, (c) localized secondary structure conformation changes of the apoprotein must be limited to the involvement of no more than one or two amino acid residues and localized tertiary structure conformation changes of the apoprotein must be limited to a very short segment of the protein chain containing only a few aromatic amino acid residues, and (d) the interaction between the apoprotein and retinal seems to be relatively more pronounced when the retinal is in the all-trans form than the 13-cis from and also the apoprotein seems to impose a more pronounced dissymmetric constraint on the retinal in the all-trans form than in the 13-cis form.

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