Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Unique structure and function of viral rhodopsins

  • Dmitry Bratanov,
  • Kirill Kovalev,
  • Jan-Philipp Machtens,
  • Roman Astashkin,
  • Igor Chizhov,
  • Dmytro Soloviov,
  • Dmytro Volkov,
  • Vitaly Polovinkin,
  • Dmitrii Zabelskii,
  • Thomas Mager,
  • Ivan Gushchin,
  • Tatyana Rokitskaya,
  • Yuri Antonenko,
  • Alexey Alekseev,
  • Vitaly Shevchenko,
  • Natalya Yutin,
  • Riccardo Rosselli,
  • Christian Baeken,
  • Valentin Borshchevskiy,
  • Gleb Bourenkov,
  • Alexander Popov,
  • Taras Balandin,
  • Georg Büldt,
  • Dietmar J. Manstein,
  • Francisco Rodriguez-Valera,
  • Christoph Fahlke,
  • Ernst Bamberg,
  • Eugene Koonin,
  • Valentin Gordeliy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12718-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Rhodopsin genes have been identified in some large double-stranded DNA viruses, but the structure and functions of viral rhodopsins remain unknown. Here authors present crystal structure and characterization of an Organic Lake Phycodnavirus rhodopsin II (OLPVRII) which forms a pentamer and is a weak proton pump.