Search Results - "Wilson, Adjele"
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Insights into energy quenching mechanisms and carotenoid uptake by orange carotenoid protein homologs: HCP4 and CTDH
Published in International journal of biological macromolecules (01-04-2024)“…Photodamage to the photosynthetic apparatus by excessive light radiation has led to the evolution of a variety of energy dissipation mechanisms. A mechanism…”
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Elucidation of the essential amino acids involved in the binding of the cyanobacterial Orange Carotenoid Protein to the phycobilisome
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics (01-01-2022)“…The Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) is a soluble photoactive protein involved in cyanobacterial photoprotection. It is formed by the N-terminal domain (NTD)…”
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Photoactivation Mechanism, Timing of Protein Secondary Structure Dynamics and Carotenoid Translocation in the Orange Carotenoid Protein
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (09-01-2019)“…The orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is a two-domain photoactive protein that noncovalently binds an echinenone (ECN) carotenoid and mediates photoprotection in…”
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Structural dynamics in the C terminal domain homolog of orange carotenoid Protein reveals residues critical for carotenoid uptake
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics (01-08-2020)“…The structural features enabling carotenoid translocation between molecular entities in nature is poorly understood. Here, we present the three-dimensional…”
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Interdomain interactions reveal the molecular evolution of the orange carotenoid protein
Published in Nature plants (01-10-2019)“…The photoactive orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is a blue-light intensity sensor involved in cyanobacterial photoprotection. Three OCP families co-exist (OCPX,…”
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Light‐controlled carotenoid transfer between water‐soluble proteins related to cyanobacterial photoprotection
Published in The FEBS journal (01-05-2019)“…Carotenoids are lipophilic pigments with multiple biological functions from coloration to vision and photoprotection. Still, the number of water‐soluble…”
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A 12 Å carotenoid translocation in a photoswitch associated with cyanobacterial photoprotection
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-06-2015)“…Pigment-protein and pigment-pigment interactions are of fundamental importance to the light-harvesting and photoprotective functions essential to oxygenic…”
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Immobilization of Orange Carotenoid Protein on mesoporous silica SBA-15 for the development of photoactivable nanodevices
Published in Microporous and mesoporous materials (01-07-2022)“…The photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) is a protein involved in photo-protective responses in cyanobacteria. It induces the thermal dissipation of…”
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Plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) protects photosystem I and not photosystem II against photoinhibition in Arabidopsis thaliana and Marchantia polymorpha
Published in The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology (01-02-2024)“…SUMMARY The plastid terminal oxidase PTOX controls the oxidation level of the plastoquinone pool in the thylakoid membrane and acts as a safety valve upon…”
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Structure, Diversity, and Evolution of a New Family of Soluble Carotenoid-Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria
Published in Molecular plant (10-10-2016)“…Using a phylogenomic approach, we have identified and subciassified a new family of carotenoid-binding proteins. These proteins have sequence homology to the…”
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In vitro efficacies of various isothiocyanates from cruciferous vegetables as antimicrobial agents against foodborne pathogens and spoilage bacteria
Published in Food control (01-03-2013)“…The antimicrobial activities of ten isothiocyanates (ITCs), namely sulforaphane, iberin, allyl-, benzyl-, methyl-, phenyl-, phenylethyl-, propyl-,…”
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Biosynthesis of soluble carotenoid holoproteins in Escherichia coli
Published in Scientific reports (13-03-2015)“…Carotenoids are widely distributed natural pigments that are excellent antioxidants acting in photoprotection. They are typically solubilized in membranes or…”
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Light-induced energy dissipation in iron-starved cyanobacteria: roles of OCP and IsiA proteins
Published in The Plant cell (01-02-2007)“…In response to iron deficiency, cyanobacteria synthesize the iron stress-induced chlorophyll binding protein IsiA. This protein protects cyanobacterial cells…”
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Oligomerization processes limit photoactivation and recovery of the orange carotenoid protein
Published in Biophysical journal (02-08-2022)“…The orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is a photoactive protein involved in cyanobacterial photoprotection by quenching of the excess of light-harvested energy…”
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Light stress in green and red Planktothrix strains: The orange carotenoid protein and its related photoprotective mechanism
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics (01-04-2020)“…Photosynthetic organisms need to sense and respond to fluctuating environmental conditions, to perform efficient photosynthesis and avoid the formation of…”
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The cyanobacterial Fluorescence Recovery Protein has two distinct activities: Orange Carotenoid Protein amino acids involved in FRP interaction
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-04-2017)“…To deal with fluctuating light condition, cyanobacteria have developed a photoprotective mechanism which, under high light conditions, decreases the energy…”
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Structural Determinants Underlying Photoprotection in the Photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein of Cyanobacteria
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (11-06-2010)“…The photoprotective processes of photosynthetic organisms involve the dissipation of excess absorbed light energy as heat. Photoprotection in cyanobacteria is…”
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Ultrafast spectroscopy tracks carotenoid configurations in the orange and red carotenoid proteins from cyanobacteria
Published in Photosynthesis research (2017)“…A quenching mechanism mediated by the orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is one of the ways cyanobacteria protect themselves against photooxidative stress. Here,…”
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Structural rearrangements in the C-terminal domain homolog of Orange Carotenoid Protein are crucial for carotenoid transfer
Published in Communications biology (01-01-2018)“…A recently reported family of soluble cyanobacterial carotenoproteins, homologs of the C-terminal domain (CTDH) of the photoprotective Orange Carotenoid…”
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Soluble Carotenoid Protein Involved in Phycobilisome-Related Energy Dissipation in Cyanobacteria
Published in The Plant cell (01-04-2006)“…Photosynthetic organisms have developed multiple protective mechanisms to survive under high-light conditions. In plants, one of these mechanisms is the…”
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