Structural and spectroscopic characteristics of bacteriorhodopsin in air-water interface films Export

@article{Hwang1977, abstract = {Summary A suspension of purple membrane fragments in a solution of soya phosphatidyl-choline in hexane is spread at an air-water interface. Surface pressure and surface potential measurements indicate that the membrane fragments and lipids organize at the interface as an insoluble film. Electron microscopy of shadow-cast replicas of the film reveal that in the bacteriorhodopsin to soya PC weight ratio range of 2:1 to 10:1, these films consist of nonoverlapping membrane fragments which occupy approximately 35\% of the surface area and are separated by a lipid monolayer. Furthermore, the membrane fragments are oriented, with their intracellular surface towards the aqueous subphase. Nearly all the bacteriorhodopsin molecules at the interface are spectroscopically intact and exhibit visible spectral characteristics identical to those in aqueous suspensions of purple membrane and in intact bacteria. In addition, bacteriorhodopsin in air-dried interface films show spectral changes upon dark-adaptation and upon flash illumination similar to those observed in aqueous suspensions of purple membrane, but with slower kinetics. The kinetics of the spectral changes in interface films can be made nearly the same as in aqueous suspension by immersing the films in water.}, author = {Hwang, San-Bao and Korenbrot, Juan I. and Stoeckenius, Walther}, citeulike-article-id = {6097982}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01868147}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/l72k2mk114u88381}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/BF01868147}, journal = {Journal of Membrane Biology}, keywords = {bacteriorhodopsin}, month = {December}, number = {1}, pages = {115--135}, posted-at = {2009-11-11 12:25:39}, priority = {4}, title = {Structural and spectroscopic characteristics of bacteriorhodopsin in air-water interface films}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01868147}, volume = {36}, year = {1977} }

TY - JOUR ID - Hwang1977 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6097982 N2 - Summary A suspension of purple membrane fragments in a solution of soya phosphatidyl-choline in hexane is spread at an air-water interface. Surface pressure and surface potential measurements indicate that the membrane fragments and lipids organize at the interface as an insoluble film. Electron microscopy of shadow-cast replicas of the film reveal that in the bacteriorhodopsin to soya PC weight ratio range of 2:1 to 10:1, these films consist of nonoverlapping membrane fragments which occupy approximately 35% of the surface area and are separated by a lipid monolayer. Furthermore, the membrane fragments are oriented, with their intracellular surface towards the aqueous subphase. Nearly all the bacteriorhodopsin molecules at the interface are spectroscopically intact and exhibit visible spectral characteristics identical to those in aqueous suspensions of purple membrane and in intact bacteria. In addition, bacteriorhodopsin in air-dried interface films show spectral changes upon dark-adaptation and upon flash illumination similar to those observed in aqueous suspensions of purple membrane, but with slower kinetics. The kinetics of the spectral changes in interface films can be made nearly the same as in aqueous suspension by immersing the films in water. IS - 1 JF - Journal of Membrane Biology EP - 135 TI - Structural and spectroscopic characteristics of bacteriorhodopsin in air-water interface films VL - 36 SP - 115 KW - bacteriorhodopsin AU - Hwang, San-Bao AU - Korenbrot, Juan AU - Stoeckenius, Walther PY - 1977/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01868147 ER -