Protein purification of Agrobacterium tumefaciens phytochrome Agp1 and UV-vis spectroscopy analysis in comparison to DrBphP from Deinococcus Radiodur…

2015

Phytochromes are bimodal light switchable photosensors exist in plants, bacteria and fungi. Incorporating bilin as their chromophore, most bacteriophytochromes (BphPs) function as two-component histidine kinase affected by red/far-red light and regulate downstream physiological activities in the microorganism. The study aims on the purification of Agrobacterium phytochrome Agp1whose phosphorylation activity in its histidine kinase (HK) domain was recently found to be affected by the temperature. The purified proteins Agp1 were assembled with biliverdin IXα (BV) and monitored by UV-vis spectroscopy with BV incorporated DrBphP from Deinococcus radiodurans. Extinction coefficient spectra of “a…