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SUBMITTER: Franz S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6125616 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Franz Sophie S Ignatz Elisabeth E Wenzel Sandra S Zielosko Hannah H Putu Eka Putra Gusti Ngurah EPGN Maestre-Reyna Manuel M Tsai Ming-Daw MD Yamamoto Junpei J Mittag Maria M Essen Lars-Oliver LO
Nucleic acids research 20180901 15
Photolyases and cryptochromes form an almost ubiquitous family of blue light photoreceptors involved in the repair and maintenance of DNA integrity or regulatory control. We found that one cryptochrome from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CraCRY) is capable of both, control of transcript levels and the sexual cycle of the alga in a positive (germination) and negative manner (mating ability), as well as catalyzing the repair of UV-DNA lesions. Its 1.6 Å crystal structure shows besides t ...[more]