Abstract:
:The effect of blue background light on behavioral response of Halobacterium halobium to step-like stimulation with green-orange attractant light was examined. The results strongly support the previously proposed hypothesis that a long-lifetime photointermediate of s-rhodopsin is the photoreceptor for repellent light: the step-like increase in green-orange light was convertible from attractant stimulus to repellent one, when the cells were constantly illuminated with blue light. No difference of the threshold intensity of the blue background light was observed between the mutant strain that lacks both bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin and the wild type strain, suggesting that the two light-driven ion pumps are not participant in sensing attractant light.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Takahashi T,Mochizuki Y,Kamo N,Kobatake Ydoi
10.1016/s0006-291x(85)80131-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-02-28 00:00:00pages
99-105issue
1eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
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127pub_type
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