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SUBMITTER: Oliinyk OS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5578081 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oliinyk Olena S OS Chernov Konstantin G KG Verkhusha Vladislav V VV
International journal of molecular sciences 20170803 8
Bacterial photoreceptors absorb light energy and transform it into intracellular signals that regulate metabolism. Bacterial phytochrome photoreceptors (BphPs), some cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) and allophycocyanins (APCs) possess the near-infrared (NIR) absorbance spectra that make them promising molecular templates to design NIR fluorescent proteins (FPs) and biosensors for studies in mammalian cells and whole animals. Here, we review structures, photochemical properties and molecular function ...[more]