Structural requirements for key residues and auxiliary portions of a BLUF domain

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 10271-10280

  Wu, Qiong ^a   Ko, Wen Huang ^a   Gardner, Kevin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ASTROPHYSICS; CHROMOPHORES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC ACIDS; RELIABILITY;

ABSORBANCE SPECTRUM; BLUE LIGHT; BLUE LIGHT EXCITATION; C-TERMINAL EXTENSION; CELLULAR RESPONSES; CHEMICAL-; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; DOMAIN ARCHITECTURES; FLAVIN BINDING; INDUCED SIGNAL; LIGHT CONDITIONS; MUTAGENESIS STUDIES; RED SHIFTING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SHIFT CHANGES; SIDE CHAINS; SIGNALING STATES; SINGLE DOMAINS; SOLUTION NMR; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS; UV-VISIBLE;

PORT TERMINALS;

ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BLUF PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; QUERCETIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BLUE LIGHT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAVINS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 52949104454     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8011687     Document Type: Article

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