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Biophysical Journal 50: 139-144 (1986)
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Quasielastic Light-Scattering Study on Changes in Sizes of Native White Membranes after Addition of Retinal

Jeffrey Marque, Akira Ikegami, Kenji Kubota, Yasunori Tominaga and Satoru Fujime

ABSTRACT

Aqueous suspensions of native white membranes from Halobacterium halobium, strain JW2N, have been studied by quasielastic light scattering. The intensity autocorrelation functions of polarized scattered light from suspensions of white membranes themselves and of white membranes after reconstitution with retinal were measured at various K2, K being the magnitude of the scattering vector. The first cumulant or the average decay rate of the correlation function was obtained by a cumulant expansion method. The first cumulant for the white membranes increased after retinal was added to the suspension. The first cumulants obtained before and after the addition of retinal were almost independent of pH in the range 7 to 11, and of temperature in the range 15° to 40°C after T/{eta} scaling, {eta} being the solvent viscosity. This suggests that photocycling in reconstituted membranes, induced by the probe laser-beam, did not cause any detectable change in spectra, and that the membrane flexibility, if present, was independent of the above conditions, so that the spectral changes after the addition of retinal could be attributed mostly to the changes in the sizes of the membranes. A theoretical formulation for the first cumulant for a rigid disk-like scatterer (Fujime, S. and K. Kubota, 1985, Biophys. Chem., 23:1-13.) was applied to the analysis of the spectra. The results suggest that the radii of the membrane patches decreased by several percent after the addition of retinal.






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