Ubiquitous Structural Signaling in Bacterial Phytochromes.

Alexander Björling, Oskar Berntsson, Heikki Takala, Kevin D Gallagher, Hardik Patel, Emil Gustavsson, Rachael St Peter, Phu Duong, Angela Nugent, Fan Zhang, Peter Berntsen, Roberto Appio, Ivan Rajkovic, Heli Lehtivuori, Matthijs R Panman, Maria Hoernke, Stephan Niebling, Rajiv Harimoorthy, Tilman Lamparter, Emina A StojkovićJanne A Ihalainen, Sebastian Westenhoff

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Abstract

The phytochrome family of light-switchable proteins has long been studied by biochemical, spectroscopic and crystallographic means, while a direct probe for global conformational signal propagation has been lacking. Using solution X-ray scattering, we find that the photosensory cores of several bacterial phytochromes undergo similar large-scale structural changes upon red-light excitation. The data establish that phytochromes with ordinary and inverted photocycles share a structural signaling mechanism and that a particular conserved histidine, previously proposed to be involved in signal propagation, in fact tunes photoresponse.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3379-3383
JournalThe Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume6
Issue number17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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