Cryptochrome in Sponges

Flexible Minerals: Self-Assembled Calcite Spicules with Extreme Bending Strength

(2013) F. Natalio et al.   SCIENCE

Nocturnin in the demospongeSuberites domuncula: a potential circadian clock protein controlling glycogenin synthesis in sponges

(2012) Werner E. G. Müller et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Catalytic Intermediates of Inducible Nitric-oxide Synthase Stabilized by the W188H Mutation

(2012) Joseph Sabat et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Blue-light-receptive cryptochrome is expressed in a sponge eye lacking neurons and opsin

(2012) A. S. Rivera et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Increased expression of nitric oxide synthase interacting protein (NOSIP) following traumatic spinal cord injury in rats

(2012) Xiaowei Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR HISTOLOGY

Genetic, biological and structural hierarchies during sponge spicule formation: from soft sol–gels to solid 3D silica composite structures

(2012) Xiaohong Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Biologically induced transition of bio-silica sol to mesoscopic gelatinous flocs: a biomimetic approach to a controlled fabrication of bio-silica structures

(2012) Xiaohong Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Hardening of bio-silica in sponge spicules involves an aging process after its enzymatic polycondensation: Evidence for an aquaporin-mediated water absorption

(2011) Werner E.G. Müller et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Interaction of the retinoic acid signaling pathway with spicule formation in the marine sponge Suberites domuncula through activation of bone morphogenetic protein-1

(2011) Werner E.G. Müller et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Blue-light-dependent interaction of cryptochrome 1 with SPA1 defines a dynamic signaling mechanism

(2011) H.-L. Lian et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Light-activated Cryptochrome Reacts with Molecular Oxygen to Form a Flavin–Superoxide Radical Pair Consistent with Magnetoreception

(2011) Pavel Müller et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Light-Induced Conformational Changes in Full-Length Arabidopsis thaliana Cryptochrome

(2011) Masato Kondoh et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Membrane Attachment Is Key to Protecting Transducin GTPase-Activating Complex from Intracellular Proteolysis in Photoreceptors

(2011) S. M. Gospe et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Nitric oxide: A pleiotropic signal in the nervous system

(2011) E. E. Benarroch   NEUROLOGY

Bioengineering of the silica-polymerizing enzyme silicatein-α for a targeted application to hydroxyapatite

(2010) Filipe Natalio et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Morphology of Sponge Spicules: Silicatein a Structural Protein for Bio-Silica Formation

(2010) Xiaohong Wang et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Acuity of a Cryptochrome and Vision-Based Magnetoreception System in Birds

(2010) Ilia A. Solov'yov et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Nitric oxide modulates recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2-induced corticocancellous autograft incorporation: a study in rat intertransverse fusion

(2010) Ashish D. Diwan et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

A cryptochrome-based photosensory system in the siliceous sponge Suberites domuncula (Demospongiae)

(2010) Werner E. G. Müller et al.   FEBS Journal

Electron transfer in a human inducible nitric oxide synthase oxygenase/FMN construct co-expressed with the N-terminal globular domain of calmodulin

(2010) Changjian Feng et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Eye evolution and the origin of Darwin's eye prototype

(2010) Walter Gehring et al.   ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Flashing light signaling circuit in sponges: Endogenous light generation after tissue ablation in Suberites domuncula

(2010) Matthias Wiens et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Origin of Light-Induced Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs in Cryptochrome†

(2010) Stefan Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Predicting protein-protein binding sites in membrane proteins

(2009) Andrew J Bordner   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Luciferase a light source for the silica-based optical waveguides (spicules) in the demosponge Suberites domuncula

(2009) W. E. G. Müller et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

(2009) Y. Shichida et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Detergent binding explains anomalous SDS-PAGE migration of membrane proteins

(2009) Arianna Rath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light inside sponges

(2008) Franz Brümmer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY