Essential Role of an Unusually Long-lived Tyrosyl Radical in the Response to Red Light of the Animal-like Cryptochrome aCRY

Discovery and functional analysis of a 4th electron-transferring tryptophan conserved exclusively in animal cryptochromes and (6-4) photolyases

(2015) Pavel Müller et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Spectroscopic characterization of radicals and radical pairs in fruit fly cryptochrome - protonated and nonprotonated flavin radical-states

(2015) Bernd Paulus et al.   FEBS Journal

Microsecond Deprotonation of Aspartic Acid and Response of the α/β Subdomain Precede C-Terminal Signaling in the Blue Light Sensor Plant Cryptochrome

(2015) Christian Thöing et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structural Biochemistry of a Fungal LOV Domain Photoreceptor Reveals an Evolutionarily Conserved Pathway Integrating Light and Oxidative Stress

(2015) Jameela Lokhandwala et al.   STRUCTURE

Response of the Sensory Animal-like Cryptochrome aCRY to Blue and Red Light As Revealed by Infrared Difference Spectroscopy

(2014) Meike Spexard et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Photochemical Tyrosine Oxidation in the Structurally Well-Defined α3Y Protein: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and a Long-Lived Tyrosine Radical

(2014) Starla D. Glover et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reversible, Long-Range Radical Transfer in E. coli Class Ia Ribonucleotide Reductase

(2013) Ellen C. Minnihan et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Flavin reduction activates Drosophila cryptochrome

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

Crystal structure of a prokaryotic (6-4) photolyase with an Fe-S cluster and a 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine antenna chromophore

(2013) F. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanism of tyrosine D oxidation in Photosystem II

(2013) K. Saito et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Evolution of Flavin-Binding Photoreceptors: An Ancient Chromophore Serving Trendy Blue-Light Sensors

(2012) Aba Losi et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

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

(2012) Daichi Yamada et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

CryB from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: a unique class of cryptochromes with new cofactors

(2012) Yann Geisselbrecht et al.   EMBO REPORTS

A Flavin Binding Cryptochrome Photoreceptor Responds to Both Blue and Red Light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2012) B. Beel et al.   PLANT CELL

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

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

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

Functional motifs in the (6-4) photolyase crystal structure make a comparative framework for DNA repair photolyases and clock cryptochromes

(2009) K. Hitomi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct Observation of a Photoinduced Radical Pair in a Cryptochrome Blue-Light Photoreceptor

(2008) Till Biskup et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity in Drosophila

(2008) Robert J. Gegear et al.   NATURE

Recognition and repair of UV lesions in loop structures of duplex DNA by DASH-type cryptochrome

(2008) R. Pokorny et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA