VIVID is a flavoprotein and serves as a fungal blue light photoreceptor for photoadaptation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 4846-4855

  Schwerdtfeger, Carsten ^a   Linden, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blue light; Flavin; Neurospora crassa; Photoreceptor; VIVID

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; FLAVOPROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; QUERCETIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIVID PROTEIN; WC 1 PROTEIN; WC 2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BLUE LIGHT; CHROMATOPHORE; COVALENT BOND; FUNGAL BLUE LIGHT PHOTORECEPTOR; GENE MUTATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOTORECEPTORS; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0141848660     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg451     Document Type: Article

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