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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Insights into the molecular mechanism of yellow cuticle coloration by a chitin-binding carotenoprotein in gregarious locusts.

Nikita A Egorkin, Eva E Dominnik, Eugene G Maksimov, Nikolai N Sluchanko

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nikita A EgorkinA.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Eva E DominnikA.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Eugene G MaksimovM.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-6767-1501
Nikolai N SluchankoA.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. nikolai.sluchanko@mail.ru.ORCID 0000-0002-8608-1416
Lomonosov Moscow State University · RUA N Bach Institute of Biochemistry · RU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carotenoids are hydrophobic pigments binding to diverse carotenoproteins, many of which remain unexplored. Focusing on yellow gregarious locusts accumulating cuticular carotenoids, here we use engineered Escherichia coli cells to reconstitute a functional water-soluble β-carotene-binding protein, BBP. HPLC and Raman spectroscopy confirmed that recombinant BBP avidly binds β-carotene, inducing the unusual vibronic structure of its absorbance spectrum, just like native BBP extracted from the locust cuticles. Bound to recombinant BBP, β-carotene exhibits pronounced circular dichroism and allows BBP to withstand heating (T

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beta CaroteneGrasshoppersAnimalsCarotenoidsChitinXanthophyllsbeta CaroteneCarotenoidsChitinXanthophylls

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PMID38605243
PMCPMC11009388
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