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Phytochromes:

red and far-red light-inducible multi-domain photoreceptors in plants and bacteria

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Phytochromes

Phytochromes constitute a family of plant photoreceptors that regulate a wide variety of photomorphogenic processes. They act as photochemical switches that interconvert between the inactive (Pr, red-absorbing) and the active state (Pfr, far-red absorbing form) of the receptor, thereby controlling the recognition by reaction partners of the downstream signalling processes. Our studies are focused on phytochromes from Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Agp1, Agp2).

Financial Support

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Project SFB 1078-B6, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Collaboration Partners

Prof. Tilman Lamparter (Karlsruhe Institut of Technology - KIT), Dr. Norbert Krauß (Queen Mary University, London), Prof. Peter Hildebrandt, Prof. Maria Andrea Mroginski (all from Technische Universität Berlin), Dr. David von Stetten (ESRF, Grenoble), Prof. Franz Bartl (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and others.