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Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of the function of molecular components in eucaryotic and eubacterial signal transduction chains. Among the well known examples are processes dependent on G-proteins in eucaryotes and processes dependent on receptors, called methyl-accepting proteins, in eubacteria. In contrast, almost nothing is known about signal transduction in archaebacteria, which constitute the third branch of the living world. The light-regulated swimming behaviour of Halobacterium halobium as the only example of an archaebacterial signal chain that is currently studied at the cellular and molecular level and its biochemistry therefore deserves general interest for its relationship to eubacterial and eucaryotic signalling systems. Despite of evolutionary diversions the halobacterial signal chain includes the same basic principles which are known for other sensory systems. These are reception of the stimulus, amplification of the signal input, integration of signals caused by different types of sensory stimuli and adaptation to the stimulus background.
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Oesterhelt, D. (1992). The Eyes of Halobacteria. In: Hargrave, P.A., Hofmann, K.P., Kaupp, U.B. (eds) Signal Transduction in Photoreceptor Cells. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76482-0_2
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