Photolyases and cryptochromes: Common mechanisms of DNA repair and light-driven signaling?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-59

  Essen, Lars Oliver ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; PYRIMIDINE DIMER;

BLUE LIGHT; CATALYSIS; CHROMATOPHORE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENERGY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOPROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

FUNGI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 32344444896     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.01.004     Document Type: Review

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