Adaptation and spectral tuning in divergent marine proteorhodopsins from the eastern Mediterranean and the Sargasso Seas

ISME Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-55

  Sabehi, Gazalah ^a   Kirkup, Benjamin C ^b   Rozenberg, Mira ^a   Stambler, Noga ^c   Polz, Martin F ^b   Béjá, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flavobacteria; Proteorhodopsin; Retinal; SAR11; SAR86; Spectral tuning

Indexed keywords

PROTEORHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPSIN; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FLAVOBACTERIA;

EID: 34248191374     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2007.10     Document Type: Article

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