Water structural changes in the activati
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Dai Nozaki; Tatsuya Iwata; Satoru Tokutomi; Hideki Kandori
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In a plants' blue-light receptor phototropin, LOV domains contain a flavin mononucleotide (FMN) as the chromophore. Illumination of LOV domains produces an adduct formation between C(4a) of FMN and an S-H group of surrounding cysteine in an active S390 state. In this paper, we studied water structur