Metabolic engineering to produce phytochromes with phytochromobilin, phycocyanobilin, or phycoerythrobilin chromophore in Escherichia coli

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1333-1338

  Mukougawa, Keiko ^a,b   Kanamoto, Hirosuke ^a   Kobayashi, Toshikazu ^a,b   Yokota, Akiho ^a   Kohchi, Takayuki ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilin reductase; Chromophore; Phycocyanobilin; Phycoerythrobilin; Phytochrome; Phytochromobilin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENZYME; PHYCOCYANOBILIN; PHYCOERYTHROBILIN; PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROMOBILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATOPHORE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA; BILE PIGMENTS; BILIVERDINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TETRAPYRROLES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 32344445821     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.051     Document Type: Article

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