Blue flickers of hope: Secondary structure, dynamics, and putative dimerization interface of the blue-light receptor YtvA from Bacillus subtilis

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 8163-8171

  Jurk, Marcel ^a,b   Dorn, Matthias ^a,b   Schmieder, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BLUE LIGHT; DARK STATE; DOMAIN ORIENTATION; EXTRACELLULAR; FULL-LENGTH PROTEINS; INTRAMOLECULAR ACTIVATION; MULTIDOMAIN PROTEINS; QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SOLUTION NMR; SOLVENT ACCESSIBILITY; STRESS RESPONSE;

BACILLI; BACTERIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

PROTEINS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BLUE LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR YTVA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLVENTS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLAPTES;

EID: 80053033696     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi200782j     Document Type: Article

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