Fourier Transform Infrared Difference Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin and Its Photoproducts

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1982 Aug 1

PMID 6956906

Citations 51

Authors

K Bagley

G Dollinger

L Eisenstein

A K Singh

L Zimanyi

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Abstract

Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy has been used to obtain the vibrational modes in the chromophore and apoprotein that change in intensity or position between light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin and the K and M intermediates in its photocycle and between dark-adapted and light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin. Our infrared measurements provide independent verification of resonance Raman results that in light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin the protein-chromophore linkage is a protonated Schiff base and in the M state the Schiff base is unprotonated. Although we cannot unambiguously identify the Schiff base stretching frequency in the K state, the most likely interpretation of deuterium shifts of the chromophore hydrogen out-of-plane vibrations is that the Schiff base in K is protonated. The intensity of the hydrogen out-of-plane vibrations in the K state compared with the intensities of those in light-adapted and dark-adapted bacteriorhodopsin shows that the conformation of the chromophore in K is considerably distorted. In addition, we find evidence that the conformation of the protein changes during the photocycle.

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