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ArticleScience advances2024

Molecular mechanisms and evolutionary robustness of a color switch in proteorhodopsins.

Jiafei Mao, Xinsheng Jin, Man Shi, David Heidenreich, Lynda J Brown, Richard C D Brown, Moreno Lelli, Xiao He, Clemens Glaubitz

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Jiafei MaoInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ), Goethe University Frankfurt, Max von Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1547-325X
Xinsheng JinShanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2252-3550
Man ShiShanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China.
David HeidenreichInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ), Goethe University Frankfurt, Max von Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Lynda J BrownDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5678-0814
Richard C D BrownDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0156-7087
Moreno LelliDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" and Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7042-2335
Xiao HeShanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4199-8175
Clemens GlaubitzInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ), Goethe University Frankfurt, Max von Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3554-6586

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Abstract

Proteorhodopsins are widely distributed photoreceptors from marine bacteria. Their discovery revealed a high degree of evolutionary adaptation to ambient light, resulting in blue- and green-absorbing variants that correlate with a conserved glutamine/leucine at position 105. On the basis of an integrated approach combining sensitivity-enhanced solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy and linear-scaling quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods, this single residue is shown to be responsible for a variety of synergistically coupled structural and electrostatic changes along the retinal polyene chain, ionone ring, and within the binding pocket. They collectively explain the observed color shift. Furthermore, analysis of the differences in chemical shift between nuclei within the same residues in green and blue proteorhodopsins also reveals a correlation with the respective degree of conservation. Our data show that the highly conserved color change mainly affects other highly conserved residues, illustrating a high degree of robustness of the color phenotype to sequence variation.

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Biological EvolutionCell NucleusRhodopsins, MicrobialGlutamineNorisoprenoidsGlutamineNorisoprenoidsproteorhodopsinRhodopsins, Microbial

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PMID38266078
PMCPMC10807816

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