Light-induced electron transfer in a cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptor

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Baldissera Giovani
Martin Byrdin
Margaret Ahmad
Klaus Brettel
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[1] Université Paris VI, Tour 53 E 5, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, Casier 156, 4, Place Jussieu
[2] Service de Bioenergetique, CEA, CNRS URA 2096
[3] Penn State University, Media, PA 19063
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10.1038/nsb933
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Cryptochromes are flavoproteins implicated in multiple blue light-dependent signaling pathways regulating, for example, photomorphogenesis in plants or circadian clocks in animals. Using transient absorption spectroscopy, it is demonstrated that the primary light reactions in isolated Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochrome-1 involve intraprotein electron transfer from tryptophan and tyrosine residues to the excited flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor.
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