Photophysical diversity of two novel cyanobacteriochromes with phycocyanobilin chromophores: Photochemistry and dark reversion kinetics

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-54

  Chen, Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Juan ^b   Luo, Juan ^b   Tu, Jun Ming ^c   Zeng, Xiao Li ^b   Xie, Jie ^d   Zhou, Ming ^b   Zhao, Jing Quan ^d   Scheer, Hugo ^e   Zhao, Kai Hong ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cyanobacteria; cyanobacteriochrome; histidine kinase; photochromism; phycocyanobilin

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYANOBACTERIOCHROME PROTEIN; CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHYCOBILIN; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; PHYCOCYANOBILIN; PROTEIN APHC; PROTEIN FH1A; RED GREEN SWITCHABLE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL CHROMATOPHORE; BACTERIAL KINETICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DARK REVERSION KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; ISOMERIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SYNECHOCYSTIS; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSTOC; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN KINASES;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NOSTOC; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 83655163670     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08397.x     Document Type: Article

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