Photoisomerization pathway of the microbial rhodopsin chromophore in solution.

Photochem Photobiol Sci

Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan.

Published: August 2024

Photoisomerization is a key photochemical reaction in microbial and animal rhodopsins. It is well established that such photoisomerization is highly selective; all-trans to 13-cis, and 11-cis to all-trans forms in microbial and animal rhodopsins, respectively. Nevertheless, unusual photoisomerization pathways have been discovered recently in microbial rhodopsins. In an enzymerhodopsin NeoR, the all-trans chromophore is isomerized into the 7-cis form exclusively, which is stable at room temperature. Although, the 7-cis form is produced by illumination of retinal, formation of the 7-cis form was never reported for a protonated Schiff base of all-trans retinal in solution. Present HPLC analysis of retinal oximes prepared by hydroxylamine reaction revealed that all-trans and 7-cis forms cannot be separated from the syn peaks under the standard HPLC conditions, while it is possible by the analysis of the anti-peaks. Consequently, we found formation of the 7-cis form by the photoreaction of all-trans chromophore in solution, regardless of the protonation state of the Schiff base. Upon light absorption of all-trans protonated retinal Schiff base in solution, excited-state relaxation accompanies double-bond isomerization, producing 7-cis, 9-cis, 11-cis, or 13-cis form. In contrast, specific chromophore-protein interaction enforces selective isomerization into the 13-cis form in many microbial rhodopsins, but into 7-cis in NeoR.

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