Evolutionary changes in chlorophyllide a oxygenase (CAO) structure contribute to the acquisition of a new light-harvesting complex in micromonas

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 19330-19341

  Kunugi, Motoshi ^a   Takabayashi, Atsushi ^a,b   Tanaka, Ayumi ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PROKARYOTE; PIGMENT COMPOSITION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTENNAS; BIOLOGY; GENES; HARVESTING; IRON COMPOUNDS;

CHLOROPHYLL;

CHLOROPHYLL PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLLIDE A OXYGENASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTENNA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAO GENE; CAO1 GENE; CAO2 GENE; CHLOROPHYLL B GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BINDING MOTIF; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MICROMONAS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTATION; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CAO; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS; PHOTOSYSTEM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; OXYGENASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84880078886     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.462663     Document Type: Article

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