アラビドプシスの青光受容体CRY1とフラビンアデニンジヌクレオチドの結合

C Lin1, D E Robertson, M Ahmad

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 18, 1995
PubMed
まとめ

アラビドプシス・タリアナ CRY1は青光受容体であり,フラビンアデニン・ディヌクレオチド (FAD) に結合する. 独特のフラビンラジカル特性により,光への反応が説明されるが,DNA光解酵素の活性が欠けている.

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