ReviewThe New phytologist2020
Phytochrome evolution in 3D: deletion, duplication, and diversification.
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- Beyond red/far-red sensing: phytochrome perception of the marine light field by microalgae.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Proton-Coupled Chromophore and Protein Structural Changes Control Phytochrome Activation.Biochemistry · 2026Article
- Spectroscopic Analyses of Photoconversion in Phytochromes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Characterizing Phytochrome Photochemistry Using UV-Visible Spectroscopy in Host Cell Extracts and Purified Protein.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Optogenetic engineering of synthetic and natural receptors: design principles, functional mechanisms and biomedical applications.Regenerative biomaterials · 2026Review
- Propagation of Photoinduced Electric Field Changes Through Phytochrome and their Impact on Conformational Transitions.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2025Article
- Traits of Bathy Phytochromes and Application to Bacterial Optogenetics.ACS synthetic biology · 2025Article
- Circular dichroism spectroscopy reveals multiple phytochrome photoproducts in equilibrium.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025Article
- Both phytochrome A and phyB interact with PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTORs through an evolutionary conserved phyNature communications · 2025Article
- Dual-Cys bacteriophytochromes: intermediates in cyanobacterial phytochrome evolution?The FEBS journal · 2025Article
- Rotameric Heterogeneity of Conserved Tryptophan Is Responsible for Reduced Photochemical Quantum Yield in Cyanobacteriochrome Slr1393g3.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2025Article
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- Sensing a rainbow of colors: algal photoreceptors.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
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Abstract
Canonical plant phytochromes are master regulators of photomorphogenesis and the shade avoidance response. They are also part of a widespread superfamily of photoreceptors with diverse spectral and biochemical properties. Plant phytochromes belong to a clade including other phytochromes from glaucophyte, prasinophyte, and streptophyte algae (all members of the Archaeplastida) and those from cryptophyte algae. This is consistent with recent analyses supporting the existence of an AC (Archaeplastida + Cryptista) clade. AC phytochromes have been proposed to arise from ancestral cyanobacterial genes via endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT), but most recent studies instead support multiple horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events to generate extant eukaryotic phytochromes. In principle, this scenario would be compared to the emerging understanding of early events in eukaryotic evolution to generate a coherent picture. Unfortunately, there is currently a major discrepancy between the evolution of phytochromes and the evolution of eukaryotes; phytochrome evolution is thus not a solved problem. We therefore examine phytochrome evolution in a broader context. Within this context, we can identify three important themes in phytochrome evolution: deletion, duplication, and diversification. These themes drive phytochrome evolution as organisms evolve in response to environmental challenges.
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