The Switch that Does Not Flip: The Blue-Light Receptor YtvA from Bacillus subtilis Adopts an Elongated Dimer Conformation Independent of the Activation State as Revealed by a Combined AUC and SAXS Study

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 403, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-87

  Jurk, Marcel ^a,b   Dorn, Matthias ^a   Kikhney, Alexey ^c   Svergun, Dmitri ^c   Gärtner, Wolfgang ^d   Schmieder, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

Author keywords

AUC; Oligomerization state; Photoreceptor; SAXS; YtvA

Indexed keywords

DIMER; PHOTORECEPTOR YTVA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BLUE LIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LIGHT OXYGEN VOLTAGE DOMAIN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DARKNESS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 77957278505     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.036     Document Type: Article

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