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SUBMITTER: Taguchi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9938236 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taguchi Shoun S Niwa Satomi S Dao Hoang-Anh HA Tanaka Yoshihiro Y Takeda Ryota R Fukai Shuya S Hasegawa Kazuya K Takeda Kazuki K
Communications biology 20230217 1
The K intermediate of proton pumping bacteriorhodopsin is the first intermediate generated after isomerization of retinal to the 13-cis form. Although various structures have been reported for the K intermediate until now, these differ from each other, especially in terms of the conformation of the retinal chromophore and its interaction with surrounding residues. We report here an accurate X-ray crystallographic analysis of the K structure. The polyene chain of 13-cis retinal is observed to be ...[more]