Handbook of Photosensory Receptors

Hardcover  496 pages  ISBN 3527310193      £125.00

Contents

• Author Information
• Preface.
• List of Authors.
• 1. Microbial Rhodopsins: Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity (J. Spudich & K. Jung).
• 2. Sensory Rhodopsin Signaling in Green Flagellate Algae (O. Sineshchekov & J. Spudich).
• 3. Visual Pigments as Photoreceptor (M. Kumauchi & T. Ebrey).
• 4. Structural and Functional Aspects of the Mammalian Rod-Cell Photoreceptor Rhodopsin (N. Abdulaev & K. Ridge).
• 5. A Novel Light-Sensing Pathway in the eye: Conserved Features of Inner Retinal Photoreception in Rodents, Man, and Teleost Fish (M. Hankins & R. Foster).
• 6. The Phytochromes (S. Tu & J. Lagarias).
• 7. Phytochrome Signaling (E. Huq & P. Quail).
• 8. Phytochromes in Microorganisms (R. Vierstra & B. Karniol).
• 9. Light-activated Intracellular Movement of Phytochrome (E. Schäfer & F. Nagy).
• 10. Plant Cryptochromes: Their Genes, Biochemistry, and Physiological Roles (A. Batschauer).
• 11. Plant Cryptochromes and Signaling (A. Cashmore).
• 12. Animal Cryptochromes (R. van Gelder & A. Sancar).
• 13. Blue-Light Sensing and Signaling by the Phototropins (J. Christie & W. Briggs).
• 14. LOV-domain Photochemistry (T. Swartz & R. Bogomolni).
• 15. LOV-domain Structure, Dynamics, and Diversity (S. Crosson).
• 16. The ZEITLUPE Family of Putative Photoreceptors (T. Schultz).
• 17. Photoreceptor Gene Families in Lower Plants (N. Suetsugu & M. Wada).
• 18. Neurospora Photoreceptors (J. Dunlap & J. Loros).
• 19. Photoactive Yellow Protein, THE Xanthopsin (M. van der Horst, et al.).
• 20. Hypericin-Like Photoreceptors (P. Song).
• 21. The Antirepressor AppA Uses the Novel Flavin-Binding BLUF domain as a Blue-Light-Absorbing Photoreceptor to Control Photosystem Synthesis (S. Masuda & C. Bauer).
• 22. Discovery, Characterization, and Prospect of Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase (PAC), a Novel Blue-Light Receptor Flavoprotein from Euglena gracilis (M. Watanabe & M. Iseki).