Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5517959 | Journal of Plant Physiology | 2017 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Blue-light reception plays a pivotal role for algae to adapt to changing environmental conditions. In this review we summarize the current structural and mechanistic knowledge about flavin-dependent algal photoreceptors. We especially focus on the cryptochrome and aureochrome type photoreceptors in the context of their evolutionary divergence. Despite similar photochemical characteristics to orthologous photoreceptors from higher plants and animals the algal blue-light photoreceptors have developed a set of unique structural and mechanistic features that are summarized below.
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Authors
Lars-Oliver Essen, Sophie Franz, Ankan Banerjee,