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A role of methionine 100 in facilitating PYP(M)-decay process in the photocycle of photoactive yellow protein.
Journal of biochemistry - 1 Aug 2002
Kumauchi Masato, Hamada Norio, Sasaki Jun, Tokunaga Fumio
Abstract excerpt
PYP (photoactive yellow protein) is a photoreceptor protein, which is activated upon photo-isomerization of the p-coumaric acid chromophore and is inactivated as the chromophore is thermally back-isomerized within a second (in PYP(M)-to-PYP(dark) conversion). Here we have examined the mechanism of the rapid thermal isomerization by analyzing mutant PYPs of Met100, which was previously shown to play a major role...
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