Cellular photoperception and photoactive proteins
A review. The crucial steps of cellular photoperception are characterized and followed in real time by laser spectroscopy down to a few tens of femtoseconds. The photoactive proteins studied here are involved in major natural processes such as vision (bacteriorhodopsin used as a model of retinal chromoproteins), microorganism photomotility (photoactive yellow protein and oxyblepharismin binding protein) and plant phototropism (cryptochrome). It is also shown that the green fluorescent protein (GFP) can be used, upstream from genic therapy, as a temporal probe of cytoplasmic soly. of antibody fragments with which it is fused.
WOS:000248146100006
2007
308-309
19
24
CAN 147:481502
6-0
General Biochemistry
Groupe de Photochimie ultrarapide, Departement de Chimie,Ecole normale superieure, UMR CNRS 8640, Pasteur,Paris,Fr.
Journal; General Review
written in French.
148880-51-7 (Oxyblepharismin); 213903-53-8 (Cryptochrome 1) Role: BSU (Biological study, unclassified), PEP (Physical, engineering or chemical process), PRP (Properties), BIOL (Biological study), PROC (Process) (cellular photoperception and photoactive proteins)
REVIEWED
EPFL