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The Photochemical Reactions in Biological Light Perception and Regulation

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1. INTRODUCTION

Many photochemical reactions involved in the sensing of and regulation by light and ultraviolet radiation by organisms consist of cis-trans (and trans-cis) isomerisations. We shall start with this class of photosensors, and then go on to other mechanisms. There are many more known and unknown light-sensing molecular systems than those briefly described below, but (except for the first one) I have tried to concentrate on those more widespread. As examples of light-sensing pigments with a very limited distribution, one can mention stentorin and blepharismin of certain ciliates (Lenci et al. 2001).

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