Essential role of an unusually long-lived tyrosyl radical in the response to red light of the animal-like cryptochrome acry

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 291, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 14062-14071

  Oldemeyer, Sabine ^a   Franz, Sophie ^b   Wenzel, Sandra ^c   Essen, Lars Oliver ^b   Mittag, Maria ^c   Kottke, Tilman ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BINS; COVALENT BONDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOOXIDATION;

C-TERMINAL EXTENSIONS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DISULFIDE BRIDGE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNALING MECHANISMS; TYROSYL RADICALS; UV VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS;

SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

CRYPTOCHROME; RADICAL; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHOTOOXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RED LIGHT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CRYPTOCHROMES; LIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TYROSINE;

EID: 84976871322     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.726976     Document Type: Article

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