Photoreceptor Proteins, "Star Actors of Modern Times": A Review of the Functional Dynamics in the Structure of Representative Members of Six Different Photoreceptor Families

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-20

  Van Der Horst, Michael A ^a   Hellingwerf, Klaas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUF PROTEIN; CRYPTOCHROME; FLAVOPROTEIN; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PHOTOTROPIN; PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROMOBILIN; PIGMENT; PROTEIN; QUERCETIN; RETINAL; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS; XANTHOPSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1642453927     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar020219d     Document Type: Article

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