edited by
Winslow R. Briggs
and John L. Spudich
Handbook of Photosensory Receptors is the first comprehensive resource on photosensory receptors from archaea, bacteria, plants and animals that compiles the data on all known classes of photoreceptors, creating a must-have reference for students and researchers for many years to come.
Each of the molecular mechanisms of light perception is systematically covered, with emphasis given to the primary photoreceptor pigments, their photochemistry and regulation.
As such, Handbook of Photosensory Receptors is the first resource to compare the different types of photosensory receptors found in different organisms, as well as their role in cellular physiology.
Contents:
- Microbial rhodopsins : phylogenetic and functional diversity
- Sensory rhodopsin signaling in green flagellate algae
- Visual pigments as photoreceptors
- Structural and functional aspects of the mammalian rod-cell photoreceptor rhodopsin
- A novel light sensing pathway in the eye : conserved features of inner retinal photoreception in rodents, man and teleost fish
- The phytochromes
- Phytochrome signaling
- Phytochromes in microorganisms
- Light-activated intracellular movement of phytochrome
- Plant cryptochromes : their genes, biochemistry, and physiological roles
- Plant cryptochromes and signaling
- Animal cryptochromes
- Blue light sensing and signaling by the phototropins
- LOV-domain photochemistry
- LOV-domain structure, dynamics, and diversity
- The ZEITLUPE family of putative photoreceptors
- Photoreceptor gene families in lower plants
- Neurospora photoreceptors
- Photoactive yellow protein, the xanthopsin
- Hypericin-like photoreceptors
- The antirepressor AppA uses the novel flavin-binding BLUF domain as a blue-light-absorbing photoreceptor to control photosystem synthesis
- Discovery and characterization of photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), a novel blue-light receptor flavoprotein, from Euglena gracilis
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