Advances in hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and the pursuit of challenging biological systems

EI James, TA Murphree, C Vorauer, JR Engen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solution-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) is
a widespread tool for structural analysis across academia and the biopharmaceutical …

New insight into phytochromes: connecting structure to function

J Hughes, A Winkler - Annual review of plant biology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Red and far-red light–sensing phytochromes are widespread in nature, occurring in plants,
algae, fungi, and prokaryotes. Despite at least a billion years of evolution, their photosensory …

Vibrational couplings between protein and cofactor in bacterial phytochrome Agp1 revealed by 2D-IR spectroscopy

D Buhrke, N Michael, P Hamm - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Phytochromes are ubiquitous photoreceptor proteins that undergo a significant refolding of
secondary structure in response to initial photoisomerization of the chromophoric group …

Tips and turns of bacteriophytochrome photoactivation

H Takala, P Edlund, JA Ihalainen… - Photochemical & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Phytochromes are ubiquitous photosensor proteins, which control the growth, reproduction
and movement in plants, fungi and bacteria. Phytochromes switch between two …

Construction of Pt/Pt-Au doped chiral nanostructures using arginine and porphyrin assemblies as templates for enantioselective photocatalysis

X Yue, L Xu, H Lin, C Xu, S Li - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Chiral nanomaterials with different functions have been widely developed, but the deep
understanding of the structural effects of nanocatalysts on enantioselective photocatalytic …

Improved fluorescent phytochromes for in situ imaging

S Nagano, M Sadeghi, J Balke, M Fleck… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Modern biology investigations on phytochromes as near-infrared fluorescent pigments pave
the way for the development of new biosensors, as well as for optogenetics and in vivo …

Nanosecond protein dynamics in a red/green cyanobacteriochrome revealed by transient IR spectroscopy

D Buhrke, KT Oppelt, PJ Heckmeier… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Over the last decades, photoreceptive proteins were extensively studied with biophysical
methods to gain a fundamental understanding of their working mechanisms and further …

Intramolecular proton transfer controls protein structural changes in phytochrome

A Kraskov, AD Nguyen, J Goerling, D Buhrke… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Phytochromes are biological photoswitches that interconvert between two parent states (Pr
and Pfr). The transformation is initiated by photoisomerization of the tetrapyrrole …

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Phytochromes

P Hildebrandt - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Phytochromes are biological photoswitches that translate light into physiological functions.
Spectroscopic techniques are essential tools for molecular research into these …

Dynamics-driven allosteric stimulation of diguanylate cyclase activity in a red light-regulated phytochrome

QH Tran, OM Eder, A Winkler - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 - ASBMB
Sensor-effector proteins integrate information from different stimuli and transform this into
cellular responses. Some sensory domains, like red-light responsive bacteriophytochromes …