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An Australian halobacterium contains a novel proton pump retinal protein: archaerhodopsin
Y Mukohata1, Y Sugiyama, K Ihara
1Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|March 30, 1988
Abstract:
A bacterial strain collected from Western Australia carries all the specific features of Halobacteria, an extremely halophilic archaebacteria. This strain, Halobacterium sp. aus-1, contains a retinal protein which does differ from bacteriorhodopsin but still pumps out protons in the light. This novel proton pump is named "archaerhodopsin".