ArticlePhotosynthesis research2003
Light-induced behavioral responses (;phototaxis') in prokaryotes.
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- Excitable networks controlling cell migration during development and disease.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2020Review
- Blue Light Is a Universal Signal forJournal of bacteriology · 2019Article
- Light Modulates the Physiology of NonphototrophicJournal of bacteriology · 2019Article
- The excitable signal transduction networks: movers and shapers of eukaryotic cell migration.The International journal of developmental biology · 2019Review
- Phototaxis in a wild isolate of the cyanobacteriumProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Light-controlled motility in prokaryotes and the problem of directional light perception.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2017Review
- Excitable Signal Transduction Networks in Directed Cell Migration.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2017Review
- Asymmetric distribution of type IV pili triggered by directional light in unicellular cyanobacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Role of active site conformational changes in photocycle activation of the AppA BLUF photoreceptor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Light spectrum modifies the utilization pattern of energy sources in Pseudomonas sp. DR 5-09.PloS one · 2017Article
- Winged Pea Aphids Can Modify Phototaxis in Different Development Stages to Assist Their Host Distribution.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Roderick K. Clayton: a life, and some personal recollections.Photosynthesis research · 2014Article
- Collective decision-making in microbes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2014Article
- Bacterial energy taxis: a global strategy?Archives of microbiology · 2010Review
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Abstract
Light-induced sensory responses are among the oldest scientific observations on bacterial behavior. Various types of response have been characterized physiologically in detail. However, the molecular basis of this type of response is only slowly emerging. In many of these systems photosynthetic pigments absorb the light. This then generates a signal via electron transport, feeding into a canonical chemotaxis signal transduction pathway. Nevertheless, several examples have been identified in which dedicated photoreceptor proteins do play a role. The intrinsic complexity of some of these signal transduction systems is overwhelming, in part because of the significant apparent redundancy. The genomics information that is now available for several model organisms (in particular Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Synechocystis sp. PCC6803) facilitates obtaining an increasingly detailed view of the molecular basis of the partial reactions that jointly form the basis of this type of elementary behavioral response.
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