Illuminating the early signaling pathway of a fungal light-oxygen-voltage photoreceptor

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 471-481

  Peter, Emanuel ^a   Dick, Bernhard ^a   Baeurle, Stephan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer simulation of sensor proteins; Dimerization tendency; Early signal transduction pathway; Fungal LOV photoreceptor Vivid; Initial step after adduct formation

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; HOMODIMER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; VVD PROTEIN, NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; LIGHT OXYGEN VOLTAGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; LIGHT; METABOLISM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUTAMINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84855680726     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23213     Document Type: Article

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