bacteriorhodopsin
The basis of a simple photosynthetic system that provides some species of
archaea, known as halobacteria,
with chemical energy. Interestingly, bacteriorhodopsin is chemically very
similar to the light-senstive pigment rhodopsin,
found in the vertebrate retina.
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