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- Bacteriorhodopsin (Bop) is a protein used by Archaea, most notably by haloarchaea, a class of the Euryarchaeota. It acts as a proton pump; that is, it...
- respective cells: bacteriorhodopsin and noncyclic photophosphorylation and oxidative phosphorylation.[citation needed] The way bacteriorhodopsin generates a...
- light sensors. For example, the proteins from halobacteria include bacteriorhodopsin and archaerhodopsin, which are light-driven proton pumps; halorhodopsin...
- Some members of the family, Homologous rhodopsin-like pigments, i.e. bacteriorhodopsin (of which there are more than 800 types) have Sensory Functions like...
- and probably originated from bacteriorhodopsin (see below: under #Archaea). Halobacteria use the pigment bacteriorhodopsin which acts directly as a proton...
- All-trans-retinal is also an essential component of microbial opsins such as bacteriorhodopsin, channelrhodopsin, and halorhodopsin, which are important in bacterial...
- unfolded segments covered by the detergent. For example, the "unfolded" bacteriorhodopsin in SDS micelles has four transmembrane α-helices folded, while the...
- After the middle of the 1970s, his lab studied the biochemistry of bacteriorhodopsin, a membrane protein that converts light energy into chemical energy...
- employs a pigment similar to those used for vision in animals. The bacteriorhodopsin changes its configuration in response to sunlight, acting as a proton...
- thylakoids or, in rare cases, membrane-bound retinal derivatives such as bacteriorhodopsin. The vast majority of known photoautotrophs perform photosynthesis...