Algal sensory photoreceptors

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2008, Pages 167-189

  Hegemann, Peter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aureochrome; Blue light photoreceptors; BLUF proteins; Channelrhodopsin; Enzymerhodopsin; Neochrome; Photoactivated cyclase; Phototropin

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ALGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ALGA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ALGAE; ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTORS; PROTEIN KINASES;

ALGAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 44949122636     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092847     Document Type: Review

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