Probing protein-chromophore interactions in Cph1 phytochrome by mutagenesis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1415-1429

  Hahn, Janina ^a   Strauss, Holger M ^a   Landgraf, Frank T ^b   Gimenèz, Hortensia Faus ^b   Lochnit, Günter ^b   Schmieder, Peter ^a   Hughes, Jon ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biliprotein; Photoreceptor; Phytochrome; Site directed mutagenesis; Structure function studies

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CPH1 PHYTOCHROME PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN KINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTON TRANSPORT; SYNECHOCYSTIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

APOPROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 33745146150     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05164.x     Document Type: Article

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