Single Amino Acids in the Lumenal Loop Domain Influence the Stability of the Major Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Complex

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 5467-5473

  Mick, Vera ^a   Eggert, Kristina ^a   Heinemann, Bo ^b   Geister, Sonja ^c   Paulsen, Harald ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Revotar Biopharmaceuticals AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; HARVESTING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; MUTATION; PIGMENT BINDING;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE LIBRARY; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEAS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 2442492119     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi036198s     Document Type: Article

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