The enzyme, characterized from the cyanobacteria Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 and Mastigocladus laminosus, catalyses the covalent attachment of the phycobilin chromophore phycocyanobilin to cysteine 84 of the beta subunit of the phycobiliprotein phycoerythrocyanin and its isomerization to phycoviolobilin.
Zhao KH, Deng MG, Zheng M, Zhou M, Parbel A, Storf M, Meyer M, Strohmann B, Scheer H
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Novel activity of a phycobiliprotein lyase: both the attachment of phycocyanobilin and the isomerization to phycoviolobilin are catalyzed by the proteins PecE and PecF encoded by the phycoerythrocyanin operon.
Storf M, Parbel A, Meyer M, Strohmann B, Scheer H, Deng MG, Zheng M, Zhou M, Zhao KH
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Chromophore attachment to biliproteins: specificity of PecE/PecF, a lyase-isomerase for the photoactive 3(1)-cys-alpha 84-phycoviolobilin chromophore of phycoerythrocyanin.