Proton Transport Mechanism of Bacteriorhodopsin as Revealed by Site-Specific Mutagenesis and Protein Sequence Variability |
| |
| Authors: | L. S. Brown |
| |
| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA |
| |
| Abstract: | ![]()
A large share of the current ideas about the mechanism of proton transport by bacteriorhodopsin has emerged from studies of site-specific mutants. This review is an attempt to check some of these ideas against the natural variability in the primary structure of the protein. |
| |
| Keywords: | bacteriorhodopsin halobacteria mutations photocycle proton transport conserved residues |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
