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Phototropins 1 and 2: versatile plant blue-light receptors
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Blue and ultraviolet-A light regulate a wide range of responses in plants, including phototropism, chloroplast migration and stomatal opening. However, the photoreceptors for these light responses have been identified only recently. The phototropins (phot1 and phot2) represent a new class of receptor kinases that appear to be exclusive to plants. Recent genetic analysis has shown that phot1 and phot2 exhibit partially overlapping functions in mediating phototropism, chloroplast migration, and stomatal opening in Arabidopsis. Although significant progress has been made in understanding the early photochemical and biochemical events that follow phototropin excitation, the details of how this excitation activates such different responses remain to be elucidated.
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- Authors
- Briggs, W. R., & Christie, J. M.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- Corresponding author
- Briggs, Winslow R.
- ORCID
- Christie, John M.
- Venue
- Trends in Plant Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-05
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 204-210
- ISSN
- 1360-1385 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2079139285
- Cited by
- 785
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- FWCI
- 4.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Light effects on plants
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Keywords
- phototropin, phot1, phot2, blue light receptor, receptor kinases, phototropism, stomatal opening, UVA, Arabidopsis thaliana, photoreceptor signaling
- MeSH terms
- Chloroplasts, Eye Proteins, Flavoproteins, Light, Mutation, Oxygen, Phosphoproteins, Plants, Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet Rays, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Arabidopsis, Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate, Phototropism, Arabidopsis Proteins, Drosophila Proteins, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Cryptochromes
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