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ArticleBiochemistry2010

Biliverdin amides reveal roles for propionate side chains in bilin reductase recognition and in holophytochrome assembly and photoconversion.

Lixia Shang, Nathan C Rockwell, Shelley S Martin, J Clark Lagarias

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Article in Biochemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Circular dichroism spectroscopy reveals multiple phytochrome photoproducts in equilibrium.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025
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  2. Conserved histidine and tyrosine determine spectral responses through the water network in Deinococcus radiodurans phytochrome.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2022
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  10. Green/red cyanobacteriochromes regulate complementary chromatic acclimation via a protochromic photocycle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  11. Diverse two-cysteine photocycles in phytochromes and cyanobacteriochromes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lixia ShangDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Nathan C Rockwell
Shelley S Martin
J Clark Lagarias
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF PHYTOCHROME SIGNALINGR01GM068552 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI LAGARIAS, JOHN CLARK · 2003 to 2020
$5.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM068552NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068552
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Linear tetrapyrroles (bilins) perform important antioxidant and light-harvesting functions in cells from bacteria to humans. To explore the role of the propionate moieties in bilin metabolism, we report the semisynthesis of mono- and diamides of biliverdin IXalpha and those of its non-natural XIIIalpha isomer. Initially, these were examined as substrates of two types of NADPH-dependent biliverdin reductase, BVR and BvdR, and of the representative ferredoxin-dependent bilin reductase, phycocyanobilin:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PcyA). Our studies indicate that the NADPH-dependent biliverdin reductases are less accommodating to amidation of the propionic acid side chains of biliverdin IXalpha than PcyA, which does not require free carboxylic acid side chains to yield its phytobilin product, phycocyanobilin. Bilin amides were also assembled with BV-type and phytobilin-type apophytochromes, demonstrating a role for the 8-propionate in the formation of the spectroscopically native P(r) dark states of these biliprotein photosensors. Neither ionizable propionate side chain proved to be essential to primary photoisomerization for both classes of phytochromes, but an unsubstituted 12-propionate was required for full photointerconversion of phytobilin-type phytochrome Cph1. Taken together, these studies provide insight into the roles of the ionizable propionate side chains in substrate discrimination by two bilin reductase families while further underscoring the mechanistic differences between the photoconversions of BV-type and phytobilin-type phytochromes.

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AmidesBile PigmentsBiliverdineOxidoreductasesPhytochromePropionatesRecombinant ProteinsAmidesBile PigmentsBiliverdineOxidoreductasesphycocyanobilin-ferredoxin oxidoreductase, AnabaenaPhytochromePropionatesRecombinant Proteins

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PMCPMC2925249
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