• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.289.5486.1902
Corpus ID: 1461255

Bacterial rhodopsin: evidence for a new type of phototrophy in the sea.

@article{Bj2000BacterialRE,
  title={Bacterial rhodopsin: evidence for a new type of phototrophy in the sea.},
  author={O. B{\'e}j{\`a} and L. Aravind and E. Koonin and M. Suzuki and A. Hadd and L. P. Nguyen and S. Jovanovich and C. Gates and R. Feldman and J. Spudich and E. Spudich and E. DeLong},
  journal={Science},
  year={2000},
  volume={289 5486},
  pages={
          1902-6
        }
}

• O. Béjà, L. Aravind, +9 authors E. DeLong
• Published 2000
• Biology, Medicine
• Science

Extremely halophilic archaea contain retinal-binding integral membrane proteins called bacteriorhodopsins that function as light-driven proton pumps. So far, bacteriorhodopsins capable of generating a chemiosmotic membrane potential in response to light have been demonstrated only in halophilic archaea. We describe here a type of rhodopsin derived from bacteria that was discovered through genomic analyses of naturally occuring marine bacterioplankton. The bacterial rhodopsin was encoded in the… Expand

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