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    Heliorhodopsin is a family of rhodopsins discovered in 2018 by Alina Pushkarev in the laboratory of Professor Oded Beja. The new family of heliorhodopsins...
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    glycolysis. Members can be autotrophs, heterotrophs, or phototrophs using heliorhodopsin. One member, Candidatus Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum, is syntrophic...
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    algae, algal viruses and archaea. Members of the new family were named heliorhodopsins. Oded Béjà graduated with a B.Sc. degree from the Robert H. Smith Faculty...
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  • bacteriorhodopsins, halorhodopsins, proteorhodopsins, archaerhodopsins, heliorhodopsins and xanthorhodopsins to carry out phototrophy. They act as light-gated...
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