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SUBMITTER: Losi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4844311 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Losi Aba A Mandalari Carmen C Gärtner Wolfgang W
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 20140127 1
Flavin-based photoreceptor proteins of the LOV (Light, Oxygen, and Voltage) and BLUF (Blue Light sensing Using Flavins) superfamilies are ubiquitous among the three life domains and are essential blue-light sensing systems, not only in plants and algae, but also in prokaryotes. Here we review their biological roles in the prokaryotic world and their evolution pathways. An unexpected large number of bacterial species possess flavin-based photosensors, amongst which are important human and plant p ...[more]