Bilins, bilanes or bile pigments are biological pigments formed in many organisms as a metabolic product of certain porphyrins. Bilin (also called bilichrome)...
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Bilin may refer to: Bilin, Mon State, a town in Mon State in Myanmar Bilin Township, whose seat is Bilin, Mon State Bilin (biochemistry), a type of biological...
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photoreceptor pigments include: retinal (in rhodopsin) flavin (in cryptochrome) bilin (in phytochrome) In medical terminology, the term photopigment is applied...
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Phytochrome (section Biochemistry)
Phytochromes consist of a protein, covalently linked to a light-sensing bilin chromophore. The protein part comprises two identical chains (A and B)....
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compounds are commonly colored. Nomenclature of Tetrapyrroles, Appendix 1. Trivially named porphyrins, chlorins, chlorophylls and bilins, fundamental parents...
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flavin (flavoproteins, for example cryptochrome in plants and animals) and bilin (biliproteins, for example phytochrome in plants). The plant protein UVR8...
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alpha-methine bridge to form biliverdin/bilirubin. In this case, the resulting bilin carries the suffix IXα which indicates the parent molecule was protoporphyrin...
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Phycoerythrocyanin (category Biochemistry stubs)
phycoviolobilin, a violet bilin, that covalently attached at Cys-84, and beta-phycoerythrocyanin contains two phycocyanobilins, a blue bilin, that covalently attached...
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marine Synechococcus species. Identification of the terminal energy acceptor bilin in phycocyanins". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 262 (13): 6323–7...
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IXα is partially based on a system developed Fischer, which means the bilin's parent compound was protoporphyrin IX cleaved at the alpha-methine bridge...
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proteins which transport small hydrophobic molecules such as steroids, bilins, retinoids, and lipids, and most lipocalins are also able to bind to complexed...
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found in cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptomonads. Together with other bilins such as phycocyanobilin it serves as a light-harvesting pigment in the photosynthetic...
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Biliprotein (category Biochemistry)
sometimes also in certain insects. They refer to any protein that contains a bilin chromophore. In plants and algae, the main function of biliproteins is to...
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earliest evidence of oxidative enzymatic biotransformation of heme to a bilin was demonstrated by Hans Plieninger and Hans Fischer in 1942. The discovery...
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phototaxis, photoperiodism, etc.), type of chromophore (retinal, flavine, bilin), molecular structure (tertiary, quaternary), signal output (phosphorylation...
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Michigan State University Foundation Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. She was...
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Biochemistry. 15 (3): 515–20. doi:10.1021/bi00648a010. PMID 56198. Peitsch MC, Boguski MS (February 1990). "Is apolipoprotein D a mammalian bilin-binding...
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Kulik, Vladimir V.; Laptikhovsky, Vladimir V.; Lipinski, Marek R.; Liu, Bilin; Mariátegui, Luis; Marin, Wilbert; Medina, Ana; Miki, Katsuhiro; Miyahara...
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covalently attached to open chain tetrapyrrole prosthetic groups called bilins that can absorb light. These antenna assemblies within cyanobacteria and...
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