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Comparative FTIR Study of a New Fungal Rhodopsin by Ito, Hiroyasu, Sumii, Masayo, Kawanabe, Akira, Fan, Ying, Furutani, Yuji, Brown, Leonid S, Kandori, Hideki

“…Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) is a light-driven proton pump of halophilic Archaea, and BR-like proton-pumping rhodopsins have been discovered in Bacteria and Eucarya…”
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FTIR Spectroscopy of the K Photointermediate of Neurospora Rhodopsin:  Structural Changes of the Retinal, Protein, and Water Molecules after Photoisomerization by Furutani, Yuji, Bezerra, Arandi G, Waschuk, Stephen, Sumii, Masayo, Brown, Leonid S, Kandori, Hideki

“…Neurospora rhodopsin (NR, also known as NOP-1) is the first rhodopsin of the haloarchaeal type found in eucaryotes. NR demonstrates a very high degree of…”
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Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Water Molecule Present near the Retinal Chromophore of Leptosphaeria Rhodopsin, the Bacteriorhodopsin-like Proton Pump from a Eukaryote by Sumii, Masayo, Furutani, Yuji, Waschuk, Stephen A, Brown, Leonid S, Kandori, Hideki

“…Leptosphaeria rhodopsin (LR) is an archaeal-type rhodopsin found in fungi, and is the first light-driven proton-pumping retinal protein from eukaryotes. LR…”
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Conformational Coupling between the Cytoplasmic Carboxylic Acid and the Retinal in a Fungal Light-Driven Proton Pump by Furutani, Yuji, Sumii, Masayo, Fan, Ying, Shi, Lichi, Waschuk, Stephen A, Brown, Leonid S, Kandori, Hideki

“…Many fungal rhodopsins, eukaryotic structural homologues of the archaeal light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin, have been discovered in the course of…”
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