title: Isolation and characterization of homologues of plant blue-light photoreceptor (cryptochrome) genes from the fern Adiantum capillus-veneris.
abstract: Many blue-light mediated physiological responses have been studied in the fern Adiantum capillus-veneris. We have isolated genomic clones encoding sequences similar to those encoding blue-light photoreceptors (cryptochromes) in higher plants using the Arabidopsis CRY1 cDNA as a probe, and these positive clones fall into five independent groups. Using RACE procedures, we obtained full-length cDNA sequences for three of these five groups. The deduced amino acid sequences include the photolyase-homologous domain in the N-terminal half, and they also contain a C-terminal extension of about 200 amino acids in length. These structural features indicate that the genes indeed encode Adiantum cryptochromes and represent a small gene family having at least three members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. tkanegae@comp.metro-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanegae
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wada
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D056931:Cryptochromes; D004255:Deoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-Lyase / Q000235:genetics; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005136:Eye Proteins; D005420:Flavoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D015723:Gene Library; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C538962:CRY1 protein, Arabidopsis; D056931:Cryptochromes; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005136:Eye Proteins; D005420:Flavoproteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; C119828:cry protein, Drosophila; D004255:Deoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-Lyase