Photoreception in Neurospora: A tale of two White Collar proteins

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2131-2138

  Liu, Y ^a   He, Q ^a   Cheng, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue light photoreceptor; Circadian clock; Frequency; Light responses; LOV domain; White collar 1

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WC 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WC 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHITE COLLAR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

BLUE LIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE INDUCTION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NEUROSPORA; PHOTORECEPTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0242320515     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-003-3109-5     Document Type: Review

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