Photo-induced Proton Transport of Pharaonis Phoborhodopsin (sensory Rhodopsin II) is Ceased by Association with the Transducer

Overview

Journal Biophys J

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biophysics

Date 2001 Feb 13

PMID 11159458

Citations 29

Authors

Y Sudo

M Iwamoto

K Shimono

M Sumi

N Kamo

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Abstract

Phoborhodopsin (pR; also sensory rhodopsin II, sRII) is a retinoid protein in Halobacterium salinarum and works as a receptor of negative phototaxis. Pharaonis phoborhodopsin (ppR; also pharaonis sensory rhodopsin II, psRII) is a corresponding protein of Natronobacterium pharaonis. In bacterial membrane, ppR forms a complex with its transducer pHtrII, and this complex transmits the light signal to the sensory system in the cytoplasm. We expressed pHtrII-free ppR or ppR-pHtrII complex in H. salinarum Pho81/wr(-) cells. Flash-photolysis experiments showed no essential changes between pHtrII-free ppR and the complex. Using SnO2 electrode, which works as a sensitive pH electrode, and envelope membrane vesicles, we showed the photo-induced outward proton transport. This membranous proton transport was also shown using membrane vesicles from Escherichia coli in which ppR was functionally expressed. On the other hand, the proton transport was ceased when ppR formed a complex with pHtrII. Using membrane sheet, it was shown that the complex undergoes first proton uptake and then release during the photocycle, the same as pHtrII-free ppR, although the net proton transport ceases. Taking into consideration that the complex of sRII (pR) and its transducer undergoes extracellular proton circulation (J. Sasaki and J. L., Biophys. J. 77:2145-2152), we inferred that association with pHtrII closes a cytoplasmic channel of ppR, which lead to the extracellular proton circulation.

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