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Science 5 September 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5331, pp. 1505 - 1508
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5331.1505
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A Cyanobacterial Phytochrome Two-Component Light Sensory System

Kuo-Chen Yeh, Shu-Hsing Wu, John T. Murphy, J. Clark Lagarias *

The biliprotein phytochrome regulates plant growth and developmental responses to the ambient light environment through an unknown mechanism. Biochemical analyses demonstrate that phytochrome is an ancient molecule that evolved from a more compact light sensor in cyanobacteria. The cyanobacterial phytochrome Cph1 is a light-regulated histidine kinase that mediates red, far-red reversible phosphorylation of a small response regulator, Rcp1 (response regulator for cyanobacterial phytochrome), encoded by the adjacent gene, thus implicating protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation in the initial step of light signal transduction by phytochrome.

Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jclagarias{at}ucdavis.edu.

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