Dimerisation of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1 photosynthetic complex is not facilitated by a GxxxG motif in the PufX polypeptide

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1797, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1812-1819

  Crouch, Lucy I ^a   Holden Dye, Katherine ^a   Jones, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GxxxG; Light harvesting; Photosynthesis; PufX; Reaction centre; Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; LEUCINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PUFX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REACTION ANALYSIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 77956262848     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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