Crystal structures and molecular mechanism of a light-induced signaling switch: The Phot-LOV1 domain from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2474-2482

  Fedorov, Roman ^a   Schlichting, Ilme ^a,b   Hartmann, Elisabeth ^a   Domratcheva, Tatjana ^a   Fuhrmann, Markus ^c   Hegemann, Peter ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; OXYGEN; PHOT PROTEIN; PHOTOTROPIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GREEN ALGA; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHOT LOV1 DOMAIN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTROPISM; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ADIANTUM; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 0037380836     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)75052-8     Document Type: Article

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