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Molecular Properties of Biological Light Sensors

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Biophysics of Photoreceptors and Photomovements in Microorganisms

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As the source of energy and as an environmental factor, light has played a crucial role in selection and adaptation processes in chemical and organismic evolution. Organisms ranging from prokaryotic bacteria to eukaryotic mammals directly absorb light of varying wavelengths for energy supply, for survival and/or light sensory signal transduction. Efficient absorption of a specific wavelength of light by the photoreceptor/light sensor molecules triggers a variety of photobiological responses in different organisms. Figure 1 is an attempt to demonstrate the diversity of photosensor molecules and their corresponding light absorbance characteristics, particularly specific wavelength light for absorbance maximum. Some organisms such as the firefly are capable of converting chemical energy to light energy (bioluminescence). This lighting phenomenon is also included in what we might call the “photobiolgoical spectrum” (Fig. 1). Figure 2 illustrates the simplest route for light absorption by a photosensor molecule and for the resulting excitation of the molecule which initiates a sensory transduction chain in photobiological responses of organisms.

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  1. Institute for Cellular and Molecular Photobiology Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 68588, USA

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    Satoshi Suzuki

  3. Department of Chemistry, Chosun University, Kwangju, Korea

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Song, PS., Suzuki, S., Kim, ID., Kim, J.H. (1991). Molecular Properties of Biological Light Sensors. In: Lenci, F., Ghetti, F., Colombetti, G., Häder, DP., Song, PS. (eds) Biophysics of Photoreceptors and Photomovements in Microorganisms. NATO ASI Series, vol 211. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5988-3_3

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