LOV takes a pick: Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the flavin-LOV-interaction of the blue-light sensitive photoreceptor YtvA from Bacillus subtilis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Dorn, Matthias ^a,b   Jurk, Marcel ^a,c   Wartenberg, Anne ^a,b   Hahn, Aaron ^b   Schmieder, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN LOV; PROTEIN YTVA; QUERCETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS; APOPROTEIN; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BLUE LIGHT; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

APOPROTEINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINS; LIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84896716770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081268     Document Type: Article

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