Effect of charge distribution in a flexible loop on the bioluminescence color of firefly luciferases

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 575-582

  Moradi, Ali ^a   Hosseinkhani, Saman ^a   Naderi Manesh, Hossein ^a   Sadeghizadeh, Majid ^a   Alipour, Bagher Said ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE; BIOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; COLOR CHANGES; EMITTED LIGHTS; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; HOMOLOGY MODELING; LIGHT COLORS; LIGHT SHIFTS; MONOOXYGENASE; MULTI-STEP REACTIONS; POSITIVELY CHARGED; SIDE CHAINS; SITE SPECIFICS; STRUCTURAL CHANGES; STRUCTURAL FEATURES; VISIBLE LIGHTS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; COLOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORESCENCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN; LYSINE; 8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; 8-ANILINO-1-NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; POTASSIUM IODIDE;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CATALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FIREFLY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LAMPYRIS TURKESTANICUS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHIXOTRIX HIRTUS; PHOTINUS PYRALIS; PHRIXOTRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WORM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLIABILITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

COLEOPTERA; LAMPYRIS TURKESTANICUS; PHENGODIDAE; PHOTINUS PYRALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANILINO NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; COLOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLIABILITY; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59249089054     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi802057w     Document Type: Article

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