Purple membrane of halobacteria: a new light-energy converter

Three-dimensional model of purple membrane obtained by electron microscopy

1975 • 2,259 citations

Bacteriorhodopsin: a light-driven proton pump in Halobacterium Halobium

1975 • 994 citations

Bacteriorhodopsin and the purple membrane of halobacteria

1979 • 909 citations

Reconstitution of Purple Membrane Vesicles Catalyzing Light-driven Proton Uptake and Adenosine Triphosphate Formation

1974 • 714 citations

Molecular mechanisms for proton transport in membranes.

1978 • 566 citations

The structural basis of the functioning of bacteriorhodopsin: An overview

1979 • 459 citations

A protonmotive force drives bacterial flagella.

1977 • 427 citations

The structure of the purple membrane from Halobacterium halobium: Analysis of the X-ray diffraction pattern

1975 • 399 citations

Reversible Photolysis of the Purple Complex in the Purple Membrane of Halobacterium halobium

1973 • 351 citations

Compartmentation and Communication in Living Systems. Ligand Conduction: a General Catalytic Principle in Chemical, Osmotic and Chemiosmotic Reaction Systems

1979 • 349 citations

THE PURPLE MEMBRANE FROM HALOBACTERIUM HALOBIUM

1977 • 336 citations

Tunable Laser Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin

1974 • 324 citations

Chemomechanical Coupling without ATP: The Source of Energy for Motility and Chemotaxis in Bacteria

1974 • 298 citations

Reversible Dissociation of the Purple Complex in Bacteriorhodopsin and Identification of 13‐cis and all‐trans‐Retinal as its Chromophores

1973 • 294 citations

Photoisomerization, energy storage, and charge separation: A model for light energy transduction in visual pigments and bacteriorhodopsin

1979 • 270 citations

Visual-pigment spectra: implications of the protonation of the retinal Schiff base

1976 • 236 citations

Identification of retinal isomers isolated from bacteriorhodopsin

1977 • 229 citations

Kinetics and stoichiometry of light-induced proton release and uptake from purple membrane fragments, Halobacterium halobium cell envelopes, and phospholipid vesicles containing oriented purple membrane

1976 • 222 citations

A natural CD label to probe the structure of the purple membrane from Halobacterium halobium by means of exciton coupling effects

1975 • 167 citations

Reconstitution of bacteriorhodopsin

1974 • 159 citations

Temperature-dependent aggregation of bacteriorhodopsin in dipalmitoyl- and dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles

1978 • 152 citations

Primary intermediates in the photochemical cycle of bacteriorhodopsin

1978 • 140 citations

Reconstitution of Biological Molecular generators of electric current. Bacteriorhodopsin.

1976 • 135 citations

RESONANCE RAMAN STUDIES OF VISUAL PIGMENTS

1977 • 133 citations

Recent Developments in the Molecular Biology of Extremely Halophilic Bacteria

1978 • 130 citations

Characterization and Composition of the Purple and Red Membrane from Halobacterium cutirubrum

1975 • 128 citations

Ultraviolet and visible absorption spectra of the purple membrane protein and the photocycle intermediates

1978 • 127 citations

Exciton interactions and chromophore orientation in the purple membrane

1977 • 118 citations

Charge stabilization mechanism in the visual and purple membrane pigments.

1978 • 116 citations

Specific labelling of the protein and lipid on the extracellular surface of purple membrane

1978 • 113 citations

The quantum efficiency for the photochemical conversion of the purple membrane protein

1977 • 102 citations

Resonance Raman spectroscopy of the retinylidene chromophore in bacteriorhodopsin (bR570), bR560, M412, and other intermediates: structural conclusions based on kinetics, analogs, models, and isotopically labeled membranes

1978 • 92 citations

Anomalous Amide I Infrared Absorption of Purple Membrane

1979 • 83 citations

Specificity of the retinal binding site of bacteriorhodopsin: chemical and stereochemical requirements for the binding of retinol and retinal

1978 • 82 citations

Time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy of intermediates of bacteriorhodopsin: The bK ₅₉₀ intermediate

1979 • 80 citations

The quantum yield of flash-induced proton release by bacteriorhodopsin-containing membrane fragments

1979 • 80 citations

The quantum efficiency of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle

1977 • 78 citations

Areas of hydration in the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium: A neutron diffraction study

1979 • 78 citations

Molecular weight of bacteriorhodopsin solubilized in Triton X-100.

1977 • 69 citations

A model for membrane transport through α-helical protein pores

1978 • 58 citations

Experimental evidence for secondary protein-chromophore interactions at the Schiff base linkage in bacteriorhodopsin: Molecular mechanism for proton pumping

1978 • 57 citations

Transport of ions

1979 • 56 citations

Molecular orientation of bacteriorhodopsin within the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium.

1978 • 45 citations

Models for the active transport of cations ⋯ The steady-state analysis

1977 • 44 citations

The location of retinal in the purple membrane profile by neutron diffraction

1979 • 41 citations

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY IN THE VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET: VISUAL PIGMENTS, PURPLE MEMBRANE, AND NUCLEIC ACIDS

1979 • 36 citations

Molecular mechanism for the initial process of visual excitation

1979 • 19 citations

PROPERTIES OF THE RETINAL BINDING SITE IN BACTERIORHODOPSIN. USE OF RETINOL AND RETINYL MOIETIES AS FLUORESCENT PROBES

1978 • 16 citations

視覚興奮の初期過程に対する分子機構 III ねじれモデルに基づいた視覚色素中の発色団,それらの類似物と中間体の光スペクトルと構造の理論的研究

1979 • 5 citations