title: Photolyase/cryptochrome family blue-light photoreceptors use light energy to repair DNA or set the circadian clock.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sancar
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Thresher
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Araujo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozgur
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vagas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dawut
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Selby
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000235:genetics* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000235:genetics* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004255:Deoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-Lyase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010834:Phytochrome / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D010834:Phytochrome; D004255:Deoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-Lyase