Animal Type 1 Cryptochromes
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Comparative Photochemistry of Animal Type 1 and Type 4 Cryptochromes†
Cryptochromes (CRYs) are blue-light photoreceptors with known or presumed functions in light-dependent and light-independent gene regulation in plants and animals. Although the photochemistry of plant CRYs has been studied in some detail, the photochemical behavior of animal cryptochromes remains poorly defined in part because it has been difficult to purify animal CRYs with their flavin cofact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m708612200