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  • Membrane protein biophysics
  • Structural biology
  • Optogenetics

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  • Microbial pump rhodopsins are light-driven proteins crucial for ion transport.
  • Understanding their amino acid residue function guides optogenetics and membrane transporter research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce a novel numbering scheme (NS-mrho) for microbial pump rhodopsins.
  • Investigate the role of hydrogen-bond networks in microbial pump rhodopsin function and specificity.

Main Methods:

  • Developed and applied the NS-mrho numbering scheme.
  • Conducted experiments, atomic-level simulations, and hydrogen bond network analyses.
  • Utilized GR (Gloeobacter violaceus) and KR2 (Krokinobacter eikastus) as model systems.

Main Results:

  • Hydrogen-bond networks are less conserved than amino acid sequences in microbial pump rhodopsins.
  • Mutating GR to resemble KR2 inactivated the protein, highlighting the importance of the hydrogen-bond network.
  • Hydrophobic interaction networks showed greater conservation across different rhodopsins.

Conclusions:

  • Functional specificity in microbial pump rhodopsins is likely encoded in their collective hydrogen-bond networks.
  • The NS-mrho scheme facilitates comparative studies of diverse microbial pump rhodopsins.