LOV-based optogenetic devices: Light-driven modules to impart photoregulated control of cellular signaling

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Pudasaini, Ashutosh ^a   El Arab, Kaley K ^a   Zoltowski, Brian D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LOV domain; Optogenetics; Photobiology; Photosensors; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984544489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2015.00018     Document Type: Review

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