The importance of the integrity of phytochromes for their biochemical and physiological function [Elektronische Ressource] / Rashmi Shah

The importance of the integrity of phytochromes for their biochemical and physiological function Inaugural Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf vorgelegt von Rashmi Shah aus Kathmandu (Nepal) May 2011 angefertigt am Max Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie (Performed at Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry) Gedruckt mit der Genehmigung der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Referent: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gärtner (first referee) Koreferent: Prof. Dr. Karl-Erich Jaeger (second referee) Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 30.05.2011 (date of the oral examination) Acknowledgement First of all I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gärtner for giving me the opportunity to work in his group and providing superb guidance during the period of investigation. Furthermore, I am grateful to him for the critical readings and corrections of the manuscript in spite of his busy schedules, after which this thesis has come out in this form. I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Karl-Erich Jaeger (Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology, University of Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich) for kindly accepting to be the second referee of this dissertation. My sincere thanks go to Dr.