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Science 6 September 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5280, pp. 1409 - 1412
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5280.1409
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Similarity of a Chromatic Adaptation Sensor to Phytochrome and Ethylene Receptors

David M. Kehoe * and Arthur R. Grossman

Complementary chromatic adaptation in cyanobacteria acts through photoreceptors to control the biosynthesis of light-harvesting complexes. The mutant FdBk, which appears black, cannot chromatically adapt and may contain a lesion in the apparatus that senses light quality. The complementing gene identified here, rcaE, encodes a deduced protein in which the amino-terminal region resembles the chromophore attachment domain of phytochrome photoreceptors and regions of plant ethylene receptors; the carboxyl- terminal half is similar to the histidine kinase domain of two-component sensor kinases.

Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 290 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: davidk{at}andrew.stanford.edu


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