Specificity of anion binding in the substrate pocket of bacteriorhodopsin.
Facciotti, M.T., Cheung, V.S., Lunde, C.S., Rouhani, S., Baliga, N.S., Glaeser, R.M.(2004) Biochemistry 43: 4934-4943
- PubMed: 15109251 
- DOI: 10.1021/bi035757s
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1S8J, 1S8L - PubMed Abstract: 
The structure of the D85S mutant of bacteriorhodopsin with a nitrate anion bound in the Schiff base binding site and the structure of the anion-free protein have been obtained in the same crystal form. Together with the previously solved structures of this anion pump, in both the anion-free state and bromide-bound state, these new structures provide insight into how this mutant of bacteriorhodopsin is able to bind a variety of different anions in the same binding pocket ...