AtLOV2

Photoreceptor AtLOV2
Binding partner /
Cofactor FMN
Source organism Arabidopsis thaliana
Mode of action intramolecular conformational change
Excitation wavelength 450 nm
Reversion wavelength dark
Excitation time seconds
Reversion time tens of seconds
Crystal structure of AtLOV2. (PDB ID: 4EEP)

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  1. Degradation-driven protein level oscillation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biosystems, 2022
  2. An optogenetic tool for induced protein stabilization based on the Phaeodactylum tricornutum aureochrome 1a LOV domain. J Mol Biol, 2020
  3. Degradation of integral membrane proteins modified with the photosensitive degron module requires the cytosolic endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation pathway. Mol Biol Cell, 2019
  4. Optogenetic downregulation of protein levels with an ultrasensitive switch. ACS Synth Biol, 2019
  5. Development of a Synthetic Switch to Control Protein Stability in Eukaryotic Cells with Light. Methods Mol Biol, 2017
  6. Controlling Protein Activity and Degradation Using Blue Light. Methods Mol Biol, 2016
  7. A photosensitive degron enables acute light-induced protein degradation in the nervous system. Curr Biol, 2015
  8. Photo-sensitive degron variants for tuning protein stability by light. BMC Syst Biol, 2014
  9. Spatio-temporally precise activation of engineered receptor tyrosine kinases by light. EMBO J, 2014
  10. A LOV2 domain-based optogenetic tool to control protein degradation and cellular function. Chem Biol, 2013