Proton Transfer to Flavin Stabilizes the Signaling State of the Blue Light Receptor Plant Cryptochrome

ATP Binding and Aspartate Protonation Enhance Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Plant Cryptochrome

(2014) Fabien Cailliez et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

ATP Binding Turns Plant Cryptochrome Into an Efficient Natural Photoswitch

(2014) Pavel Müller et al.   Scientific Reports

The amino acids surrounding the flavin 7a-methyl group determine the UVA spectral features of a LOV protein

(2013) Sarah Raffelberg et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Variable Electron Transfer Pathways in an Amphibian Cryptochrome

(2013) Till Biskup et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Lifetimes of Arabidopsis cryptochrome signaling statesin vivo

(2013) Vera Herbel et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain CC-124 is highly sensitive to blue light in addition to green and red light in resetting its circadian clock, with the blue-light photoreceptor plant cryptochrome likely acting as negative modulator

(2013) Jennifer Forbes-Stovall et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Flavin reduction activates Drosophila cryptochrome

(2013) A. T. Vaidya et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Single Amino Acid Substitution Reveals Latent Photolyase Activity inArabidopsiscry1

(2012) Sarah Burney et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Fourier-Transform Infrared Study of the Photoactivation Process of Xenopus (6–4) Photolyase

(2012) Daichi Yamada et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Light-dependent, Dark-promoted Interaction betweenArabidopsisCryptochrome 1 and Phytochrome B Proteins

(2012) Robert M. Hughes et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Decrypting Cryptochrome: Revealing the Molecular Identity of the Photoactivation Reaction

(2012) Ilia A. Solov’yov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Primary Events in the Blue Light Sensor Plant Cryptochrome: Intraprotein Electron and Proton Transfer Revealed by Femtosecond Spectroscopy

(2012) Dominik Immeln et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Magnetically sensitive light-induced reactions in cryptochrome are consistent with its proposed role as a magnetoreceptor

(2012) K. Maeda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unexpected Electron Transfer in Cryptochrome Identified by Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy

(2011) Till Biskup et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Cryptochromes: Blue Light Photoreceptors in Plants and Animals

(2011) Inês Chaves et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

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

Indication for a Radical Intermediate Preceding the Signaling State in the LOV Domain Photocycle†

(2011) Christian Bauer et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) functions by the photoactivation mechanism distinct from the tryptophan (trp) triad-dependent photoreduction

(2011) X. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Key Dynamics of Conserved Asparagine in a Cryptochrome/Photolyase Family Protein by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

(2010) Tatsuya Iwata et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Searching for a photocycle of the cryptochrome photoreceptors

(2010) Bin Liu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Impact of the N5-proximal Asn on the Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stability of the Semiquinone Radical in Photolyase

(2010) Michael J. Damiani et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Photoreaction of Plant and DASH Cryptochromes Probed by Infrared Spectroscopy: The Neutral Radical State of Flavoproteins

(2010) Dominik Immeln et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

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

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

Spectro−Temporal Characterization of the Photoactivation Mechanism of Two New Oxidized Cryptochrome/Photolyase Photoreceptors

(2010) Johanna Brazard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cryptochrome as a Sensor of the Blue/Green Ratio of Natural Radiation in Arabidopsis

(2010) Romina Sellaro et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Conformational change induced by ATP binding correlates with enhanced biological function ofArabidopsiscryptochrome

(2009) Sarah Burney et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Microsecond Light-Induced Proton Transfer to Flavin in the Blue Light Sensor Plant Cryptochrome

(2009) Thomas Langenbacher et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

What Makes the Difference between a Cryptochrome and DNA Photolyase? A Spectroelectrochemical Comparison of the Flavin Redox Transitions

(2009) Véronique Balland et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The photophysics of flavins: What makes the difference between gas phase and aqueous solution?

(2008) Susanne Salzmann et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY

Magnetic-field effect on the photoactivation reaction of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase

(2008) K. B. Henbest et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA