Proton Affinity Changes Driving Unidirectional Proton Transport in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle
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Proton affinity changes driving unidirectional proton transport in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle.
Bacteriorhodopsin is the smallest autonomous light-driven proton pump. Proposals as to how it achieves the directionality of its trans-membrane proton transport fall into two categories: accessibility-switch models in which proton transfer pathways in different parts of the molecule are opened and closed during the photocycle, and affinity-switch models, which focus on changes in proton affinit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-2836
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(03)00903-3