The cryptochromes: Blue light photoreceptors in plants and animals

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 335-364

  Chaves, Inês ^a   Pokorny, Richard ^b   Byrdin, Martin ^c,d   Hoang, Nathalie ^e   Ritz, Thorsten ^f   Brettel, Klaus ^c,g   Essen, Lars Oliver ^b   Van Der Horst, Gijsbertus T J ^a   Batschauer, Alfred ^b   Ahmad, Margaret ^e,h  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c SERVICE DE CHIMIE BIOORGANIQUE ET DE MARQUAGE   (France)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f University of Irvine   (United States)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian clock; electron transfer; magnetoreception; photolyase; photomorphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CRYPTOCHROME; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; INSECT; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CRYPTOCHROMES; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA REPAIR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MAGNETICS; MICE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; AVES; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79955584998     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103759     Document Type: Article

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