Handbook of Photosensory Receptors

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Preface. List of Authors. 1. Microbial Rhodopsins: Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity (J. Spudich & K. Jung). 2. Sensory Rhodopsin Signaling in Green Flagellate Algae (O. Sineshchekov & J. Spudich). 3. Visual Pigments as Photoreceptor (M. Kumauchi & T. Ebrey). 4. Structural and Functional Aspects of the Mammalian Rod-Cell Photoreceptor Rhodopsin (N. Abdulaev & K. Ridge). 5. A Novel Light-Sensing Pathway in the eye: Conserved Features of Inner Retinal Photoreception in Rodents, Man, and Teleost Fish (M. Hankins & R. Foster). 6. The Phytochromes (S. Tu & J. Lagarias). 7. Phytochrome Signaling (E. Huq & P. Quail). 8. Phytochromes in Microorganisms (R. Vierstra & B. Karniol). 9. Light-activated Intracellular Movement of Phytochrome (E. Schafer & F. Nagy). 10. Plant Cryptochromes: Their Genes, Biochemistry, and Physiological Roles (A. Batschauer). 11. Plant Cryptochromes and Signaling (A. Cashmore). 12. Animal Cryptochromes (R. van Gelder & A. Sancar). 13. Blue-Light Sensing and Signaling by the Phototropins (J. Christie & W. Briggs). 14. LOV-domain Photochemistry (T. Swartz & R. Bogomolni). 15. LOV-domain Structure, Dynamics, and Diversity (S. Crosson). 16. The ZEITLUPE Family of Putative Photoreceptors (T. Schultz). 17. Photoreceptor Gene Families in Lower Plants (N. Suetsugu & M. Wada). 18. Neurospora Photoreceptors (J. Dunlap & J. Loros). 19. Photoactive Yellow Protein, THE Xanthopsin (M. van der Horst, et al.). 20. Hypericin-Like Photoreceptors (P. Song). 21. The Antirepressor AppA Uses the Novel Flavin-Binding BLUF domain as a Blue-Light-Absorbing Photoreceptor to Control Photosystem Synthesis (S. Masuda & C. Bauer). Discovery, Characterization, and Prospect of Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase (PAC), a Novel Blue-Light Receptor Flavoprotein from Euglena gracilis (M. Watanabe & M. Iseki).