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Bacteriorhodopsin is found in the intensely purple cell membrane of a bacterium called Halobacterium salinarium, which grows in salt marshes.
Walch,
Bacteriorhodopsin Immobilized in Sol-Gel Glass.
Dencher, "Internal molecular motions of
bacteriorhodopsin: hydration-induced flexibility studied by quasielastic incoherent neutron scattering using oriented purple membranes," National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.
Nonetheless, a primary example of a natural biomolecule exhibiting phase conjugation, even using low light intensities, is
bacteriorhodopsin (Werner, 1990).
Mukohata, "ATP synthesis linked to light-dependent proton uptake in a red mutant strain of Halobacterium lacking
bacteriorhodopsin," Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol.
The lipidic cubic phase method was developed by Rosenbusch and Landau, (125) and was used to crystalize
bacteriorhodopsin. With the lipidic cubic phase method, membrane proteins are designed to be crystallized in the lipidic phase consisting of oleic acid instead of the aqueous phase.
Bredas, "The
bacteriorhodopsin chromophore retinal and derivatives: an experimental and theoretical investigation of the second-order optical properties," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol.
One bit of data could be stored by a single molecule of GFP rather than by macroscopic dots of
bacteriorhodopsin, another light-responsive protein with data storage potential (SN: 3/8/97, p.