Rigid core and flexible terminus: Structure of solubilized light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex (LHCII) measured by EPR

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2915-2925

  Dockter, Christoph ^a,d   Müller, André H ^a,d   Dietz, Carsten ^a   Volkov, Aleksei ^b,e   Polyhach, Yevhen ^c   Jeschke, Gunnar ^c   Paulsen, Harald ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^e BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERMOLECULAR DISTANCE; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LOCAL FLEXIBILITY; LOCAL MOBILITY; LOOP STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; PULSED EPR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIGID CORE; ROTAMERS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPIN LABEL; SPIN LABELING;

AMINO ACIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HYDROPHILICITY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLUBILIZATION;

CHLOROPHYLL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PEAS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84856077976     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.307728     Document Type: Article

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