期刊
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 779, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2021.138868
关键词
Schizorhodopsin; Retinal; Thermostable protein; Ion pump; Transient absorption; Photocycle
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [17H03007, 20 K21383, 20H05758]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , PRESTO, Japan [JPMJPR1903]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20H05758] Funding Source: KAKEN
This study reports new Schizorhodopsins from methanogenic archaea, which show improved stability at high temperatures and exhibit light-driven inward proton transport. Additionally, it is the first time that thermally stable rhodopsins, besides outward proton pumps, have been discovered in high-temperature environments.
Schizorhodopsins (SzR), a sub-family of microbial rhodopsin, are light-driven inward proton pumps using a retinal chromophore. Here, we studied new SzRs, MtSzR and MsSzR, from methanogenic archaea (genus Methanoculleus) reported as mesophilic and sampled at a hot spring, respectively. While MtSzR and MsSzR exhibited light-driven inward proton transport, they were more stable against high temperature compared with SzR (SzR1) from non-high-temperature environment. The Arrhenius plots of heat-denaturation rates and amino acid sequences suggested different mechanisms of each high thermostability. To our knowledge, these are the first thermostable rhodopsins besides outward proton pumps, suggesting functional diversities of rhodopsins in hightemperature environments.
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