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The phytochrome red/far-red photoreceptor superfamily.

Genome biology ·Vol. 9 ·No. 8 ·2008-00-00 ·Pages 230

Sharrock RA

Abstract

Proteins of the phytochrome superfamily of red/far-red light receptors have a variety of biological roles in plants, algae, bacteria and fungi and demonstrate a diversity of spectral sensitivities and output signaling mechanisms. Over the past few years the first three-dimensional structures of phytochrome light-sensing domains from bacteria have been determined.

MeSH Terms
Algal Proteins/chemistry,physiology Bacterial Proteins/chemistry,physiology Evolution, Molecular Fungal Proteins/chemistry,physiology Light Signal Transduction Multigene Family Photoreceptors, Plant/chemistry,physiology Phylogeny Phytochrome/chemistry,physiology Plant Proteins/chemistry,physiology Protein Structure, Tertiary
Chemicals
Algal Proteins Bacterial Proteins Fungal Proteins Photoreceptors, Plant Plant Proteins Phytochrome
Authors & Affiliations
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Sharrock Robert A
Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717-3150, USA. sharrock@montana.edu
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Article Info
Journal
Genome biology
Abbr.
Genome Biol
ISSN
1474-760X
DOI
10.1186/gb-2008-9-8-230
Email
sharrock@montana.edu
Published
2008-00-00
Epub
2008-00-28
Pages
230
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
100960660
PMCID
PMC2575506
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-8-230 PMC Full Text View journal details
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