Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) functions by the photoactivation mechanism distinct from the tryptophan (trp) triad-dependent photoreduction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20844-20849

  Li, Xu ^a,b   Wang, Qin ^a,b   Yu, Xuhong ^b   Liu, Hongtao ^b   Yang, Huan ^b   Zhao, Chenxi ^b   Liu, Xuanming ^a   Tan, Chuang ^c   Klejnot, John ^b   Zhong, Dongping ^c   Lin, Chentao ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Photomorphogenesis; Photoreceptor; Redox

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME 2; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UBIQUITINATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CRYPTOCHROMES; LIGHT; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84862970479     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114579108     Document Type: Article

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