New insight into phytochromes: connecting structure to function

J Hughes, A Winkler - Annual review of plant biology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Red and far-red light–sensing phytochromes are widespread in nature, occurring in plants,
algae, fungi, and prokaryotes. Despite at least a billion years of evolution, their photosensory …

Tips and turns of bacteriophytochrome photoactivation

H Takala, P Edlund, JA Ihalainen… - Photochemical & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Phytochromes are ubiquitous photosensor proteins, which control the growth, reproduction
and movement in plants, fungi and bacteria. Phytochromes switch between two …

The primary structural photoresponse of phytochrome proteins captured by a femtosecond X-ray laser

E Claesson, WY Wahlgren, H Takala, S Pandey… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Phytochrome proteins control the growth, reproduction, and photosynthesis of plants, fungi,
and bacteria. Light is detected by a bilin cofactor, but it remains elusive how this leads to …

Protein control of photochemistry and transient intermediates in phytochromes

G Salvadori, V Macaluso, G Pellicci, L Cupellini… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Phytochromes are ubiquitous photoreceptors responsible for sensing light in plants, fungi
and bacteria. Their photoactivation is initiated by the photoisomerization of the embedded …

High-resolution crystal structures of transient intermediates in the phytochrome photocycle

M Carrillo, S Pandey, J Sanchez, M Noda, I Poudyal… - Structure, 2021 - cell.com
Phytochromes are red/far-red light photoreceptors in bacteria to plants, which elicit a variety
of important physiological responses. They display a reversible photocycle between the …

The interconnecting hairpin extension" arm": An essential allosteric element of phytochrome activity

M Kurttila, J Rumfeldt, H Takala, JA Ihalainen - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
In red-light sensing phytochromes, isomerization of the bilin chromophore triggers structural
and dynamic changes across multiple domains, ultimately leading to control of the output …

Resolution enhancement in NMR spectra by deconvolution with compressed sensing reconstruction

K Kazimierczuk, P Kasprzak, PS Georgoulia… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
NMR spectroscopy is one of the basic tools for molecular structure elucidation.
Unfortunately, the resolution of the spectra is often limited by inter-nuclear couplings. The …

Structural insights into photoactivation and signalling in plant phytochromes

S Nagano, K Guan, SM Shenkutie, C Feiler, M Weiss… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
Plant phytochromes are red/far-red photochromic photoreceptors that act as master
regulators of development, controlling the expression of thousands of genes. Here, we …

Signaling mechanism of phytochromes in solution

L Isaksson, E Gustavsson, C Persson, U Brath… - Structure, 2021 - cell.com
Phytochrome proteins guide the red/far-red photoresponse of plants, fungi, and bacteria.
Crystal structures suggest that the mechanism of signal transduction from the chromophore …

Theory and computation of nuclear shielding

T Kupka - 2020 - books.rsc.org
A review of the literature published from January to December 2019 on theoretical aspects
of nuclear magnetic shielding is presented. It covers both non-relativistic and relativistic …