Catalyses the two-electron reduction of biliverdin IXalpha. Can use [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from a number of sources as acceptor but not the [4Fe-4S] ferredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum. The isomerization of (3Z)-phytochromobilin to (3E)-phytochromobilin is thought to occur prior to covalent attachment to apophytochrome in the plant cell cytoplasm. Flavodoxins can be used instead of ferredoxin.
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(3Z)-phytochromobilin:ferredoxin oxidoreductase
Catalyses the two-electron reduction of biliverdin IXalpha. Can use [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from a number of sources as acceptor but not the [4Fe-4S] ferredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum. The isomerization of (3Z)-phytochromobilin to (3E)-phytochromobilin is thought to occur prior to covalent attachment to apophytochrome in the plant cell cytoplasm. Flavodoxins can be used instead of ferredoxin.
conserved surface-charged residues on HY2 and Arabidopsis ferredoxin AtFd2 are important in the protein-protein interaction as well as biliverdin reduction activity of HY2, mutational analysis, overview. The C12 propionate group of biliverdin is important for HY2-catalyzed biliverdin reduction
one of the six Arabidopsis ferredoxins, AtFd2, is the preferred electron donor for HY2. Activity with ferredoxin AtFd2 mutants D78N, E81Q, E82Q, Y89F, R92Q, and D112N, overview
HY2 synthesizes the open chain tetrapyrrole chromophore for light-sensing phytochromes. It catalyzes the double bond reduction of a heme-derived tetrapyrrole intermediate biliverdin IXalpha at the A-ring diene system
Hy2 mutants display a long hypocotyl in white light. Mutant seedlings grown under continuous far-red light display a typical blind phenotype showing very long hypocotyls and closed cotyledons. When grown in short-day regime, wild-type bolts after having produced about 44 leaves whereas the null mutants flower after 18 to 20 leaves
overexpression in Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002, from endogenous plasmid pAQ1 under the control of the Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 cpcBA promoter, leads to overproduction of phytochromobilin, the cells show a phenotype only slightly less pigmented and blue-green than the wild-type, the strain producing phycobiliproteins carrying phytochromobilin grow much more slowly at low light intensity. Transformant colonies in which pcyA is inactivated in the HY2 overexpression background does not develop a chlorotic appearance, and segregation of the mutant and wild-type alleles is rapidly achieved
recombinant functional expression of HT-HY2 in Escherichia coli with production of phytochromobilin, functional co-expression with cyanobacterial heme oxygenase, and the phycocyanin alpha-subunit, CpcA, from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 or Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, and with the phycocyanin alpha-subunit phycocyanobilin lyase, CpcE/CpcF, or the phycoerythrocyanin alpha-subunit phycocyanobilin isomerizing lyase, PecE/PecF, from Noctoc sp. PCC 7120. Production levels of fluorescent pigments and chromophore analysis, overview
production of full-length plant phytochrome assembled with phytochromobilin in Pichia pastoris by coexpressing apophytochromes and chromophore biosynthetic genes, heme oxygenase (HY1) and phytochromobilin oxidoreductase (HY2) from Arabidopsis thaliana. Mitochondria localization of the phytochromobilin biosynthetic genes increases the efficiency of holophytochrome biosynthesis
transposon-based directed tagging strategy using maize Ds element generates a wide diversity of tagged and non-tagged alleles that can be used to generate allelic series or deletion of clustered genes
Attachment of noncognate chromophores to CpcA of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 by heterologous expression in Escherichia coli