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  • Title: Bacteriorhodopsin (BR570) bathochromic band shift in an external electric field.
    Author: Borisevitch GP, Lukashev EP, Kononenko AA, Rubin AB.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1979 Apr 11; 546(1):171-84. PubMed ID: 444491.
    Abstract:
    In dry films of bacteriorhodopsin-containing purple membranes from Halobacterium halobium the external electric field (10(4) -- 10(5) V . cm-1) induces the appearance of a product spectrally close to the initial intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) photochromic cycle (bathoform, K). This result and also preliminary data of the electret-thermal analysis of the preparations suggest that the dielectric polarization in chromophore-protein-lipid complexes might be an essential step of the primary stabilization of light energy in photo-bioenergetic processes.
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