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Locked chromophore analogs reveal that photoactive yellow protein regulates biofilm formation in the deep sea bacterium Idiomarina loihiensis
Van Der Horst, Michael A.,Stalcup, T. Page,Kaledhonkar, Sandip,Kumauchi, Masato,Hara, Miwa,Xie, Aihua,Hellingwerf, Klaas J.,Hoff, Wouter D.
, p. 17443 - 17451 (2009)
Idiomarina loihiensis is a heterotrophic deep sea bacterium with no known photobiology. We show that light suppresses biofilm formation in this organism. The genome of I. loihiensis encodes a single photoreceptor protein: a homologue of photoactive yellow