Protein
Sensory rhodopsin III
Organism
Haloarcula marismortui (strain ATCC 43049 / DSM 3752 / JCM 8966 / VKM B-1809)
Function
Sensory rhodopsin. Associates with an unusual transducer lacking a methyl-accepting transducer domain found in all other photosensory transducers. The chromophore is all-trans-retinal in the dark.
Similarity
Belongs to the archaeal/bacterial/fungal opsin family.
Sequence
MAQEIVWYGAGAGAFFVSAVVFVWFAATRGNIRSSFYYLPPIHTSVAGAAYVAMALIAGGQLGDTVSITTLRFADWIVSTPIITYYLARLAGVDTQTRRLAVAANVVMIGVGYGFVSMSGSLRWIAFAVSTVAFIGLLYLYIKTFARKINAATASVRSLFQSLRDLTVVTWSLYPVVYFLGPLGTGIIQAPDLNFLVAVLDTIAKVGFMSILLVRYNSVETFVDSWSVAPAK