Tomato contains homologues of Arabidopsis cryptochromes 1 and 2 Export

@article{citeulike:6056723, abstract = {Cryptochromes are blue light photoreceptors found in both plants and animals. They probably evolved from photolyases, which are blue/UV-light-absorbing photoreceptors involved in DNA repair. In seed plants, two different cryptochrome (CRY) genes have been found in Arabidopsis and one in Sinapis, while three genes have been found in the fern Adiantum. We report the characterisation of tomato CRY genes CRY1 and CRY2. They map to chromosomes 4 and 9, respectively, show relatively constitutive expression and encode proteins of 679 and 635 amino acids, respectively. These proteins show higher similarity to their Arabidopsis counterparts than to each other, suggesting that duplication between CRY1 and CRY2 is an ancient event in the evolution of seed plants. The seed plant cryptochromes form a group distinct from the fern cryptochromes, implying that only one gene was present in the common ancestor between these two groups of plants. Most intron positions in CRY genes from plants and ferns are highly conserved. Tomato cry1 and cry2 proteins carry C-terminal domains 210 and 160 amino acids long, respectively. Several conserved motifs are found in these domains, some of which are common to both types of cryptochromes, while others are cryptochrome-type-specific.}, author = {Perrotta, Gaetano and Ninu, Luciano and Flamma, Floriana and Weller, James L. and Kendrick, Richard E. and Nebuloso, Elena and Giuliano, Giovanni}, citeulike-article-id = {6056723}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006371130043}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/n705171351xt8432}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1023/A:1006371130043}, journal = {Plant Molecular Biology}, keywords = {cry1, cry2}, month = {March}, number = {5}, pages = {765--773}, posted-at = {2009-11-02 15:58:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Tomato contains homologues of Arabidopsis cryptochromes 1 and 2}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006371130043}, volume = {42}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6056723 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6056723 N2 - Cryptochromes are blue light photoreceptors found in both plants and animals. They probably evolved from photolyases, which are blue/UV-light-absorbing photoreceptors involved in DNA repair. In seed plants, two different cryptochrome (CRY) genes have been found in Arabidopsis and one in Sinapis, while three genes have been found in the fern Adiantum. We report the characterisation of tomato CRY genes CRY1 and CRY2. They map to chromosomes 4 and 9, respectively, show relatively constitutive expression and encode proteins of 679 and 635 amino acids, respectively. These proteins show higher similarity to their Arabidopsis counterparts than to each other, suggesting that duplication between CRY1 and CRY2 is an ancient event in the evolution of seed plants. The seed plant cryptochromes form a group distinct from the fern cryptochromes, implying that only one gene was present in the common ancestor between these two groups of plants. Most intron positions in CRY genes from plants and ferns are highly conserved. Tomato cry1 and cry2 proteins carry C-terminal domains 210 and 160 amino acids long, respectively. Several conserved motifs are found in these domains, some of which are common to both types of cryptochromes, while others are cryptochrome-type-specific. IS - 5 JF - Plant Molecular Biology EP - 773 TI - Tomato contains homologues of Arabidopsis cryptochromes 1 and 2 VL - 42 SP - 765 KW - cry1 KW - cry2 AU - Perrotta, Gaetano AU - Ninu, Luciano AU - Flamma, Floriana AU - Weller, James AU - Kendrick, Richard AU - Nebuloso, Elena AU - Giuliano, Giovanni PY - 2000/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006371130043 ER -