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Structure function analysis of mammalian cryptochromes.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2007
Tamanini F, Chaves I, Bajek M I, van der Horst G T J
Abstract excerpt
Members of the photolyase/cryptochrome family are flavoproteins that share an extraordinary conserved core structure (photolyase homology region, PHR), but the presence of a carboxy-terminal extension is limited to the cryptochromes. Photolyases are DNA-repair enzymes that remove UV-light-induced lesions. Cryptochromes of plants and Drosophila act as circadian photoreceptors, involved in light entrainment of the...
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