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Crucial role in light signal transduction for the conserved Met93 of the BLUF protein PixD/Slr1694.

A conclusive mechanism of the photoinduced reaction cascade in blue light using flavin photoreceptors.

Novel photosystem involving protonation and deprotonation processes modelled on a PYP photocycle.

Distinguishing chromophore structures of photocycle intermediates of the photoreceptor PYP by transient fluorescence and energy transfer.

Cyanobacteriochrome CcaS is the green light receptor that induces the expression of phycobilisome linker protein.

Role of the white collar 1 photoreceptor in carotenogenesis, UV resistance, hydrophobicity, and virulence of Fusarium oxysporum.

Helix formation is a dynamical bottleneck in the recovery reaction of Photoactive Yellow Protein.

Physiological Sites of Deamidation and Methyl Esterification in Sensory Transducers of Halobacterium salinarum

Origin of the absorption maxima of the photoactive yellow protein resolved via ab initio multiconfigurational methods.

Picometer-scale conformational heterogeneity separates functional from nonfunctional states of a photoreceptor protein.

Diverse Roles of Glycine Residues Conserved in Photoactive Yellow Proteins

The White Collar protein WcoA of Fusarium fujikuroi is not essential for photocarotenogenesis, but is involved in the regulation of secondary metabolism and conidiation.

[Inversion of phototaxis in cells of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 determined by a mutation in the regulatory gene prqR]

Photostimulation of Hypocrea atroviridis growth occurs due to a cross-talk of carbon metabolism, blue light receptors and response to oxidative stress.

Photoregulation in prokaryotes.

Arginine52 controls the photoisomerization process in photoactive yellow protein.

Quantum dynamics of electronic excitations in biomolecular chromophores: role of the protein environment and solvent.

Conformational changes in the N-terminal region of photoactive yellow protein: a time-resolved diffusion study.

Stress tensor analysis of the protein quake of photoactive yellow protein.

Photoactive yellow protein from the halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber.