Abstract:Energy transfer from light-harvesting ketocarotenoids to light-driven proton pumps xanthorhodopsins has been previously demonstrated in two unique cases: an extreme halophilic bacterium and a terrestrial cyanobacterium. Attempts to find carotenoids that bind and transfer energy to rhodopsin proton pumps from the abundant marine and freshwater photoheterotrophs have thus far failed. Here, using functional metagenomics combined with chromophore extraction from the environment, we detected light energy transfer f… Show more
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