A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators.
Needham DM, Yoshizawa S, Hosaka T, Poirier C, Choi CJ, Hehenberger E, Irwin NAT, Wilken S, Yung CM, Bachy C, Kurihara R, Nakajima Y, Kojima K, Kimura-Someya T, Leonard G, Malmstrom RR, Mende DR, Olson DK, Sudo Y, Sudek S, Richards TA, DeLong EF, Keeling PJ, Santoro AE, Shirouzu M, Iwasaki W, Worden AZ.
Needham DM, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Oct 8;116(41):20574-20583. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1907517116. Epub 2019 Sep 23.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.
PMID: 31548428
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We demonstrate that the rhodopsin shared by ChoanoViruses and PgV binds retinal and pumps protons. Moreover, our 1.65-A resolved VirR(DTS) crystal structure and mutational analyses exposed differences from previously characterized type-1 rhodopsins, all of which come from …
We demonstrate that the rhodopsin shared by ChoanoViruses and PgV binds retinal and pumps protons. Moreover, our 1.65-A resolved VirR(DTS) …