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- noun biochemistry Any of several
proteins , that are light-dependentproton pumps , found inmarine bacteria .
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated that when the ability to respire oxygen is impaired, bacterium equipped with proteorhodopsin will switch to solar power to carry out vital life processes.
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New light has been shed on proteorhodopsin, the light-sensitive protein found in many marine bacteria.
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The importance of understanding novel mechanisms for marine bacteria to efficiently use solar energy is obvious if one considers that a liter of seawater on average contains around a billion bacteria, many of which contain proteorhodopsin.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The importance of understanding novel mechanisms for marine bacteria to efficiently use solar energy is obvious if one considers that a liter of seawater on average contains around a billion bacteria, many of which contain proteorhodopsin.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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At the same time the present study shows that proteorhodopsin-mediated phototrophy (the process of acquiring energy from light) allows marine bacteria to better survive periods of starvation in an often nutrient-depleted ocean.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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At the same time the present study shows that proteorhodopsin-mediated phototrophy (the process of acquiring energy from light) allows marine bacteria to better survive periods of starvation in an often nutrient-depleted ocean.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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In 2000, American scientists discovered that many marine bacteria contain a gene in their genome that encodes a new kind of light-harvesting pigment: proteorhodopsin.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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In 2000, American scientists discovered that many marine bacteria contain a gene in their genome that encodes a new kind of light-harvesting pigment: proteorhodopsin.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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a decade later, the first direct evidence for the functioning of proteorhodopsin in native marine bacteria is presented, based on mutational analysis in a marine bacterium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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a decade later, the first direct evidence for the functioning of proteorhodopsin in native marine bacteria is presented, based on mutational analysis in a marine bacterium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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