Photoreceptors, Microbial
"Photoreceptors, Microbial" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Light absorbing proteins and protein prosthetic groups found in certain microorganisms. Some microbial photoreceptors initiate specific chemical reactions which signal a change in the environment, while others generate energy by pumping specific ions across a cellular membrane.
| Descriptor ID |
D020283
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.752
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Synthetic biology: engineering Escherichia coli to see light. Nature. 2005 Nov 24; 438(7067):441-2.
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Crystallographic structure of a photoreceptor protein at 2.4 A resolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Sep; 86(17):6533-7.