Light-generated paramagnetic intermediates in BLUF domains

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 574-583

  Weber, Stefan ^a   Schroeder, Claudia ^b   Kacprzak, Sylwia ^a   Mathes, Tilo ^c   Kowalczyk, Radoslaw M ^d,e   Essen, Lars Oliver ^b   Hegemann, Peter ^c   Schleicher, Erik ^a   Bittl, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVOPROTEIN; FREE RADICAL; ISOALLOXAZINE; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE; TYROSINE; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; FREE RADICALS; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 79955472059     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2010.00885.x     Document Type: Article

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