Human and Drosophila cryptochromes are light activated by flavin photoreduction in living cells

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1559-1569

  Hoang, Nathalie ^a   Schleicher, Erik ^b   Kacprzak, Sylwia ^b   Bouly, Jean Pierre ^a   Picot, Marie ^c   Wu, William ^a   Berndt, Albrecht ^d,f   Wolf, Eva ^d   Bittl, Robert ^b   Ahmad, Margaret ^a,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; QUERCETIN; SEMIQUINONE; EYE PROTEIN; FLAVOPROTEIN; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTOREDUCTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPODOPTERA; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL LINE; CRYPTOCHROMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EYE PROTEINS; FLAVINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; SPODOPTERA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 48349113478     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060160     Document Type: Article

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