Engineering a More Thermostable Blue Light Photo Receptor Bacillus subtilis YtvA LOV Domain by a Computer Aided Rational Design Method

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Song, Xiangfei ^a   Wang, Yefei ^a   Shu, Zhiyu ^a   Hong, Jingbo ^a   Li, Tong ^a,b   Yao, Lishan ^a  

^a QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOREAGENTS; BLUE LIGHT; COMPUTER-AIDED; DESIGN METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FLAVIN MONO NUCLEOTIDES (FMN); LOV DOMAINS; NOVEL PROTEINS; RATIONAL DESIGN;

PROTEINS;

FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PROTEIN YTVA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BLUE LIGHT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUTANT; MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84880822879     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003129     Document Type: Article

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