title: White collar proteins: PASsing the light signal in Neurospora crassa.
abstract: The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa is an excellent paradigm for the study of blue light signal transduction. The isolation and characterization of the genes for two central regulators of the blue light response, white collar-1 and white collar-2, have begun to shed light on the mechanism of blue light signal transduction in fungi. These proteins are not only proposed to encode blue-light-activated transcription factors but also to be elements of the blue light signal transduction pathway.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ballario
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Macino
mesh_terms: D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008027:Light; D009154:Mutation; D009492:Neurospora crassa / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D018462:Photobiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000528:radiation effects; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C105589:wc-1 protein, Neurospora crassa; C103772:white collar 2 protein, Neurospora