Signal transduction in light-oxygen-voltage receptors lacking the adduct-forming cysteine residue

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yee, Estella F ^a   Diensthuber, Ralph P ^b   Vaidya, Anand T ^a,e   Borbat, Peter P ^a   Engelhard, Christopher ^c   Freed, Jack H ^a   Bittl, Robert ^c   Möglich, Andreas ^b,d   Crane, Brian R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; LIGHT OXYGEN VOLTAGE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; QUERCETIN; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; OXYGEN; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CHROMATOPHORE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DIMERIZATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGEN TENSION; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTON TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; EURYARCHAEOTA; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84949604440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10079     Document Type: Article

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