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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 168-178Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2008.02.014
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM007183] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The spectroscopic identification of sensory rhodopsin I by Bogomolni and Spudich in 1982 provided a molecular link between the light environment and phototaxis in Halobacterium salinarum, and thus laid the foundation for the study of signal transducing photosensors in prokaryotes. In recent years, a number of new prokaryotic photosensory receptors have been discovered across a broad range of taxa, including dozens in chemotrophic species. Among these photoreceptors are new classes of rhodopsins, BLUF-domain proteins, bacteriophytochromes, cryptochromes, and LOV-family photosensors. Genetic and biochemical analyses of these receptors have demonstrated that they can regulate processes ranging from photosynthetic pigment biosynthesis to virulence.
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