A rising tide of blue-absorbing biliprotein photoreceptors - Characterization of seven such bilin-binding GAF domains in Nostoc sp. PCC7120

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 4095-4108

  Ma, Qiong ^a,b   Hua, Huan Huan ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Liu, Bin Bin ^a   Krämer, Anna Laura ^c   Scheer, Hugo ^d   Zhao, Kai Hong ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

bilirubins; cyanobacteriochrome; photoreceptor; phycocyanobilin; phycoviolobilin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BLUE ABSORBING BILIPROTEIN PHOTORECEPTOR; CYSTEINE; PHYCOBILIN; PHYCOCYANOBILIN; PHYCOVIOLOBILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATOPHORE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAF DOMAIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PCC7120; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BILE PIGMENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYSTEINE; NOSTOC; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PHYCOBILIPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NOSTOC SP.; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 84867580557     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12003     Document Type: Article

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