Characterization of an FMO variant of chlorobaculum tepidum carrying bacteriochlorophyll a esterified by geranylgeraniol

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 5455-5463

  Wen, Jianzhong ^a,b   Harada, Jiro ^a,e   Buyle, Kenny ^b   Yuan, Kevin ^a,b   Tamiaki, Hitoshi ^c   Oh Oka, Hirozo ^d   Loomis, Richard A ^b   Blankenship, Robert E ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry ^*  (United States)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; BINDING PROTEINS; BIOCHEMICAL PURIFICATION; CD SPECTRA; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; DOUBLE BONDS; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; EXCITED-STATE LIFETIME; GENES ENCODING; GERANYLGERANIOL; LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNAS; MODEL SYSTEM; MUTANT CELLS; PIGMENT BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN VARIANTS; Q-RT-PCR; SPECTRAL BAND; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMALLY STABLE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS; WHOLE CELL; WILD TYPES;

ABSORPTION; ANTENNAS; BINDING ENERGY; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANES; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE ENCODING; PHOTODEGRADATION; PURIFICATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; BINDING PROTEIN; FENNA MATTHEWS OLSON LIGHT HARVESTING ANTENNA PROTEIN; GERANYLGERANIOL; PHYTOL; PIGMENT; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MUTANT; CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTERIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHOLE CELL; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROBI; DITERPENES; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESTERIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOL; PROTEIN STABILITY;

CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM;

EID: 77954195696     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi1006805     Document Type: Article

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