Abstract
A wide variety of light-sensing proteins that are found in plants and microorganisms and that provide natural resources for engineering optogenetic tools are briefly reviewed. We include microbial rhodopsins, which absorb blue/green light; phytochromes, which absorb red/far-red light; UV-A/blue- absorbing flavoproteins (cryptochromes, LOV-domain proteins, BLUF-domain proteins); and the recently discovered UV-B sensor UVR8. Among them, the significance of channelrhodopsins and photoactivated adenylyl cyclases is emphasized.
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Iseki, M., & Takahashi, T. (2015). Biology of light-sensing proteins in plants and microorganisms. In Optogenetics: Light-Sensing Proteins and their Applications (pp. 17–30). Springer Japan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55516-2_2
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