Communications Biology (Jun 2021)

Structure-based insights into evolution of rhodopsins

  • Dmitrii Zabelskii,
  • Natalia Dmitrieva,
  • Oleksandr Volkov,
  • Vitaly Shevchenko,
  • Kirill Kovalev,
  • Taras Balandin,
  • Dmytro Soloviov,
  • Roman Astashkin,
  • Egor Zinovev,
  • Alexey Alekseev,
  • Ekaterina Round,
  • Vitaly Polovinkin,
  • Igor Chizhov,
  • Andrey Rogachev,
  • Ivan Okhrimenko,
  • Valentin Borshchevskiy,
  • Vladimir Chupin,
  • Georg Büldt,
  • Natalia Yutin,
  • Ernst Bamberg,
  • Eugene Koonin,
  • Valentin Gordeliy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02326-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Zabelskii et al. present a structural and functional analysis of the lightdriven proton pump LR (Mac) from the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans. Their findings indicate that the archaeal ancestry of eukaryotic type 1 rhodopsins, and that the archaeal host of the proto-mitochondrial endosymbiont was capable of light-driven proton pumping.