Skip to main content
PMC home page
Protein Science : A Publication of the Protein Society logoLink to Protein Science : A Publication of the Protein Society
. 1999 Feb;8(2):447–459. doi: 10.1110/ps.8.2.447

Bacterial rhodopsins: evolution of a mechanistic model for the ion pumps.

W Stoeckenius 1
PMCID: PMC2144268  PMID: 10048341

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (2.0 MB).

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Birge R. R. Nature of the primary photochemical events in rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1990 Apr 26;1016(3):293–327. doi: 10.1016/0005-2728(90)90163-x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Birge R. R. Photophysics of light transduction in rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Annu Rev Biophys Bioeng. 1981;10:315–354. doi: 10.1146/annurev.bb.10.060181.001531. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Henderson R. The structure of the purple membrane from Halobacterium hallobium: analysis of the X-ray diffraction pattern. J Mol Biol. 1975 Apr 5;93(2):123–138. doi: 10.1016/0022-2836(75)90123-0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Kitagawa T., Maeda A. Vibrational spectra of rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Photochem Photobiol. 1989 Dec;50(6):883–894. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1989.tb02918.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Krebs M. P., Khorana H. G. Mechanism of light-dependent proton translocation by bacteriorhodopsin. J Bacteriol. 1993 Mar;175(6):1555–1560. doi: 10.1128/jb.175.6.1555-1560.1993. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Lanyi J. K. Halorhodopsin, a light-driven electrogenic chloride-transport system. Physiol Rev. 1990 Apr;70(2):319–330. doi: 10.1152/physrev.1990.70.2.319. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Lanyi J. K. Proton translocation mechanism and energetics in the light-driven pump bacteriorhodopsin. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1993 Dec 7;1183(2):241–261. doi: 10.1016/0005-2728(93)90226-6. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Mathies R. A., Lin S. W., Ames J. B., Pollard W. T. From femtoseconds to biology: mechanism of bacteriorhodopsin's light-driven proton pump. Annu Rev Biophys Biophys Chem. 1991;20:491–518. doi: 10.1146/annurev.bb.20.060191.002423. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. Nagle J. F., Tristram-Nagle S. Hydrogen bonded chain mechanisms for proton conduction and proton pumping. J Membr Biol. 1983;74(1):1–14. doi: 10.1007/BF01870590. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. Ovchinnikov Y. A., Abdulaev N. G., Feigina M. Y., Kiselev A. V., Lobanov N. A. The structural basis of the functioning of bacteriorhodopsin: an overview. FEBS Lett. 1979 Apr 15;100(2):219–224. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(79)80338-5. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. Stoeckenius W., Bogomolni R. A. Bacteriorhodopsin and related pigments of halobacteria. Annu Rev Biochem. 1982;51:587–616. doi: 10.1146/annurev.bi.51.070182.003103. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  12. Stoeckenius W. From membrane structure to bacteriorhodopsin. J Membr Biol. 1994 May;139(3):139–148. doi: 10.1007/BF00232619. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  13. Stoeckenius W., Lozier R. H., Bogomolni R. A. Bacteriorhodopsin and the purple membrane of halobacteria. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1979 Mar 14;505(3-4):215–278. doi: 10.1016/0304-4173(79)90006-5. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  14. Trissl H. W. Photoelectric measurements of purple membranes. Photochem Photobiol. 1990 Jun;51(6):793–818. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Protein Science : A Publication of the Protein Society are provided here courtesy of The Protein Society

RESOURCES