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Mutations in N-terminal flanking region of blue light-sensing light-oxygen and voltage 2 (LOV2) domain disrupt its repressive activity on kinase domain in the Chlamydomonas phototropin.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 23 Mar 2012
Aihara Yusuke, Yamamoto Takaharu, Okajima Koji, Yamamoto Kazuhiko, Suzuki Tomomi, Tokutomi Satoru, Tanaka Kazuma, Nagatani Akira
Abstract excerpt
Phototropin is a light-regulated kinase that mediates a variety of photoresponses such as phototropism, chloroplast positioning, and stomata opening in plants to increase the photosynthetic efficiency. Blue light stimulus first induces local conformational changes in the chromophore-bearing light-oxygen and voltage 2 (LOV2) domain of phototropin, which in turn activates the serine/threonine (Ser/Thr) kinase...
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