Biophysical Journal 52: 1071-1075 (1987)
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The photochemical reactions of bacterial sensory rhodopsin-I. Flash photolysis study in the one microsecond to eight second time window.

Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143.

ABSTRACT

Halobacterium halobium Flx mutants are deficient in bacteriorhodopsin (bR) and halorhodopsin (hR). Such strains are phototactic and the light signal detectors are two additional retinal pigments, sensory rhodopsins I and II (sR-I and sR-II), which absorb maximally at 587 and 480 nm, respectively. A retinal-deficient Flx mutant, Flx5R, overproduces sR-I-opsin and does not show any photochemical activity other than that of sR-I after the pigment is regenerated by addition of all-trans retinal. Using native membrane vesicles from this strain, we have resolved a new photointermediate in the sR-I photocycle between the early bathointermediate S610 and the later intermediate S373. The new form, S560, resembles the L intermediate of bR in its position in the photoreaction cycle, its relatively low extinction, and its moderate blue shift. It forms with a half-time of approximately 90 microseconds at 21 degrees C, concomitant with the decay of S610. Its decay with a half-time of 270 microseconds parallels the appearance of S373. From a data set consisting of laser flash-induced absorbance changes (300 ns, 580-nm excitation) measured at 24 wavelengths from 340 to 720 nm in a time window spanning 1 microsecond to 8 s we have calculated the spectra of the photocycle intermediates assuming a unidirectional, unbranched reaction scheme.

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