Initial characterization of the primary photochemistry of AppA, a blue-light-using flavin adenine dinucleotide-domain containing transcriptional antirepressor protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: A key role for reversible intramolecular proton transfer from the flavin adenine dinucleotide chromophore to a conserved tyrosine?

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 290-297

  Laan, Wouter ^a   Van der Horst, Michael A ^a   Van Stokkum, Ivo H ^b   Hellingwerf, Klaas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN APPA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTON TRANSPORT; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS SPHAEROIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA PRIMERS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTONS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0141844456     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)078<0290:ICOTPP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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