Cyanobacterial light-driven proton pump, gloeobacter rhodopsin: complementarity between rhodopsin-based energy production and photosynthesis.

A homologue of type I rhodopsin was found in the unicellular Gloeobacter violaceus PCC7421, which is believed to be primitive because of the lack of thylakoids and peculiar morphology of phycobilisomes. The Gloeobacter rhodopsin (GR) gene encodes a polypeptide of 298 amino acids. This gene is locali...

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Main Authors: Ah Reum Choi, Lichi Shi, Leonid S Brown, Kwang-Hwan Jung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4210194?pdf=render