title: Evaluation of the predicted secondary structure of bacteriorhodopsin. Prediction of the bovine rhodopsin secondary structure and its sequence similarity with bacteriorhodopsin.
abstract: The secondary structure of bacteriorhodopsin (bacR) is predicted using the Chou and Fasman method in conjunction with the hydropathic index of Kyte and Doolittle. The predicted bacR structure was compared with the structure determined by Henderson et al. (1990) using electron diffraction and was found to correlate extremely well. The secondary structure of bovine rhodopsin (bovR) was then predicted using the same techniques. The proposed transmembrane regions of bovR were then examined and found to have sequence similarity with those transmembrane regions of bacR.
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, Austin/Repatriation Hospitals, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Nero
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Louis
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001436:Bacteriorhodopsins / Q000737:chemistry*; D002417:Cattle; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000737:chemistry*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001436:Bacteriorhodopsins; D012243:Rhodopsin