Structural basis of diversification of fungal retinal proteins probed by site-directed mutagenesis of Leptosphaeria rhodopsin

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2557-2561

  Fan, Ying ^a   Shi, Lichi ^a   Brown, Leonid S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microbial rhodopsin; Photosensory receptors; Proton transport; Retinal protein

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; RHODOPSIN; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PICHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOPSIN; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LEPTOSPHAERIA; NEUROSPORA;

EID: 34248581659     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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