Article
Carotenoid desaturases from Rhodobacter capsulatus and Neurospora crassa are structurally and functionally conserved and contain domains homologous to flavoprotein disulfide oxidoreductases.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 15 Sept 1990
Bartley G E, Schmidhauser T J, Yanofsky C, Scolnik P A
Abstract excerpt
The characteristic red color of some photosynthetic bacteria and the orange color of Neurospora conidia is due to the presence of carotenoids, photoprotective pigments synthesized by plants, algae, bacteria, and fungi. Generally, carotenoids are tetraterpenes in which absorption of visible light...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Carotenoids
- Flavoproteins
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Neurospora
- Neurospora crassa
- Oxidoreductases
- Photosynthesis