A Q63E rhodobacter sphaeroides AppA BLUF domain mutant is locked in a pseudo-light-excited signaling state

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 10682-10690

  Dragnea, Vladimira ^a   Arunkumar, Alphonse I ^a   Lee, Chul Won ^a   Giedroc, David P ^a   Bauer, Carl E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE-SHIFTED; BLUF DOMAINS; FLAVIN FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; HSQC NMR; HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; PHOTOCYCLES; RED SHIFT; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIGNALING STATE;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACIDS; EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUENCHING; SIGNALING;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

GLYCINE; QUERCETIN;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLUE LIGHT USING FAD PHOTORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE MUTATION; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; FLAVOPROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUTATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 78650345258     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi1002162     Document Type: Article

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