Nature Communications (May 2020)

Molecular mechanism of light-driven sodium pumping

  • Kirill Kovalev,
  • Roman Astashkin,
  • Ivan Gushchin,
  • Philipp Orekhov,
  • Dmytro Volkov,
  • Egor Zinovev,
  • Egor Marin,
  • Maksim Rulev,
  • Alexey Alekseev,
  • Antoine Royant,
  • Philippe Carpentier,
  • Svetlana Vaganova,
  • Dmitrii Zabelskii,
  • Christian Baeken,
  • Ilya Sergeev,
  • Taras Balandin,
  • Gleb Bourenkov,
  • Xavier Carpena,
  • Roeland Boer,
  • Nina Maliar,
  • Valentin Borshchevskiy,
  • Georg Büldt,
  • Ernst Bamberg,
  • Valentin Gordeliy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16032-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The Na+-pumping KR2 rhodopsin from Krokinobacter eikastus is a light-driven non-proton cation pump whose mechanism of pumping remains to be understood. Here authors solved crystal structures of the O-intermediate state of the pentameric form of KR2 and its D116N and H30A mutants, which sheds light on the mechanism of non-proton cation light-driven pumping.