Mutational and structural studies of the PixD BLUF output signal that affects light-regulated interactions with PixE

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 6365-6375

  Yuan, Hua ^a   Dragnea, Vladimira ^a   Wu, Qiong ^b   Gardner, Kevin H ^b   Bauer, Carl E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDES; BLUE LIGHT; BLUE LIGHT EXCITATION; CONFORMATIONAL STATE; CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCYSTIS; DARK STATE; HIGHER ORDER; LIGHT EXCITATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PHOTOCYCLES; SIDE-CHAINS; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; WILD TYPES; X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

AMIDES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EXCITED STATES;

ACRYLAMIDE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; GLUTAMINE; METHIONINE; QUERCETIN; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONFORMATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; WILD TYPE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACRYLAMIDE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DARKNESS; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRYPTOPHAN;

SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 79960540029     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi200701d     Document Type: Article

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