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A search for radical intermediates in the photocycle of LOV domains.
Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology - 1 Feb 2015
Kutta Roger Jan, Magerl Kathrin, Kensy Uwe, Dick Bernhard
Abstract excerpt
LOV domains are the light sensitive parts of phototropins and many other light-activated enzymes that regulate the response to blue light in plants and algae as well as some fungi and bacteria. Unlike all other biological photoreceptors known so far, the photocycle of LOV domains involves the excited triplet state of the chromophore. This chromophore is flavin mononucleotide (FMN) which forms a covalent adduct...
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