Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of the AppA blue-light receptor BLUF domain from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 49, 2005, Pages 15978-15985

  Dragnea, Vladimira ^a   Waegele, Matthias ^a   Balascuta, Septimiu ^a   Bauer, Carl ^a   Dragnea, Bogdan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

APPA PHOTOCYCLE; MUTANT PROTEINS; TRANSIENT SPECTRA;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

APPA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BLUF PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROGEN BOND; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARAMETER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; FLAVOPROTEINS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 28944448536     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050839x     Document Type: Article

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