The sequence of Vibrio cholerae genome revealed three genes belonging to the
photolyase/cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptor family. The proteins encoded by the three …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the photolyase/cryptochrome blue-light
photoreceptor family that encompasses a large group of proteins from all three biological …

Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are cyanobacterial photoreceptors that sense near-
ultraviolet to far-red light. Like the distantly related phytochromes, all CBCRs reported to …

Blue light receptors belonging to the cryptochrome/photolyase family are found in all
kingdoms of life. The functions of photolyases in repair of UV‐damaged DNA as well as of …

Cryptochromes are flavoproteins that act as sensory blue light receptors in insects, plants,
fungi, and bacteria. We have investigated a cryptochrome from the green alga …

Cryptochromes are flavoproteins that exhibit high sequence and structural similarity to the
light‐dependent DNA‐repair enzyme, photolyase. Cryptochromes have lost the ability to …

The expression of photosynthesis genes in the facultatively photosynthetic bacterium
Rhodobacter sphaeroides is controlled by the oxygen tension and by light quantity. Two …

Photolyase is a DNA repair enzyme that reverses UV-induced photoproducts in DNA in a
light-dependent manner. Recently, photolyase homologs were identified in higher …

The photolyase/cryptochrome family of proteins are FAD-containing flavoproteins which
carry out blue-light-dependent functions including DNA repair, plant growth and …

Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are linear tetrapyrrole-binding photoreceptors that sense a
wide range of wavelengths from ultraviolet to far-red. The primary photoreaction in these …