Hydrogen bond switching among flavin and amino acid side chains in the BLUF photoreceptor observed by ultrafast infrared spectroscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4790-4802

  Bonetti, Cosimo ^a   Mathes, Tilo ^b   Van Stokkum, Ivo H M ^a   Mullen, Katharine M ^a   Groot, Marie Louise ^a   Van Grondelle, Rienk ^a   Hegemann, Peter ^b   Kennis, John T M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAVINS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 58149280493     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.139246     Document Type: Article

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