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name       Lauretta
status     student
age        18

uestion - What role does bacteria hodospin
play in various species of halobacterium?

Dear Lauretta,
Halobacteria are archae bacteriathat are highly salt
resistant. Read about Halobacteria (I apologize for
the jargon at this site) at
http://chroma.mbt.washington.edu/seq_www/halo.html

Your question probably had a spellin error. Rhodopsins
are light harvesting proteins, and bacteriorhodopsin
is a well-known and well-studied member of this family
from halobacteria.
You can read about this protein at the following
webpage which is quite advanced in level:
http://web.syr.edu/~vasharma/Birge_group/pages/R_bR_intro.html

Hope this answers your question

Dr. Trudy Wassenaar

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