ATP Binding Turns Plant Cryptochrome Into an Efficient Natural Photoswitch
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ATP Binding Turns Plant Cryptochrome Into an Efficient Natural Photoswitch
Cryptochromes are flavoproteins that drive diverse developmental light-responses in plants and participate in the circadian clock in animals. Plant cryptochromes have found application as photoswitches in optogenetics. We have studied effects of pH and ATP on the functionally relevant photoreduction of the oxidized FAD cofactor to the semi-reduced FADH(·) radical in isolated Arabidopsis cryptoc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep05175