Photochromic biliproteins from the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120: Lyase activities, chromophore exchange, and photochromism in phytochrome aphA

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 36, 2004, Pages 11576-11588

  Zhao, Kai Hong ^a   Ran, Yong ^a   Li, Mei ^a   Sun, Ya Nan ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a   Storf, Max ^b   Kupka, Michaela ^b   Böhm, Stefan ^b   Bubenzer, Claudia ^b   Scheer, Hugo ^b,c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Dept Biologie I Bereich Botanik ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCATALYTIC TRANSFERS; CHROMOPHORE TRANSFERS; PHOTOCROMIC BILIPROTEINS; PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHROMOPHORES; ISOMERIZATION; PHOTOCHROMISM;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILIPROTEIN; IMIDAZOLE; LYASE; PHYCOCYANOBILIN; PHYCOERYTHROCYANIN; PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROME APHA; PYRROLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; APHA GENE; APHB GENE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHROMATOPHORE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PECA GENE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; APOPROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYRROLES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TETRAPYRROLES;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4444326150     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0491548     Document Type: Article

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