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@ARTICLE{Berndt:59166,
author = {Berndt, A. and Kottke, T. and Breitkreuz, H. and Dvorsky,
R. and Hennig, S. and Alexander, M. and Wolf, E.},
title = {{A} {N}ovel {P}hotoreaction {M}echanism for the {C}ircadian
{B}lue {L}ight {P}hotoreceptor {D}rosophila {C}ryptochrome},
journal = {The journal of biological chemistry},
volume = {282},
issn = {0021-9258},
address = {Bethesda, Md.},
publisher = {Soc.},
reportid = {PreJuSER-59166},
pages = {13011 - 13021},
year = {2007},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {Cryptochromes are flavoproteins that are evolutionary
related to the DNA photolyases but lack DNA repair activity.
Drosophila cryptochrome (dCRY) is a blue light photoreceptor
that is involved in the synchronization of the circadian
clock with the environmental light-dark cycle. Until now,
spectroscopic and structural studies on this and other
animal cryptochromes have largely been hampered by
difficulties in their recombinant expression. We have
therefore established an expression and purification scheme
that enables us to purify mg amounts of monomeric dCRY from
Sf21 insect cell cultures. Using UV-visible spectroscopy,
mass spectrometry, and reversed phase high pressure liquid
chromatography, we show that insect cell-purified dCRY
contains flavin adenine dinucleotide in its oxidized state
(FAD(ox)) and residual amounts of methenyltetrahydrofolate.
Upon blue light irradiation, dCRY undergoes a reversible
absorption change, which is assigned to the conversion of
FAD(ox) to the red anionic FAD(.) radical. Our findings lead
us to propose a novel photoreaction mechanism for dCRY, in
which FAD(ox) corresponds to the ground state, whereas the
FAD(.) radical represents the light-activated state that
mediates resetting of the Drosophila circadian clock.},
keywords = {Animals / Cell Line / Circadian Rhythm / Cryptochromes /
DNA Repair / Deoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-Lyase: chemistry /
Drosophila: chemistry / Drosophila: metabolism / Drosophila
Proteins: chemistry / Drosophila Proteins: metabolism /
Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide: chemistry / Flavin-Adenine
Dinucleotide: metabolism / Flavoproteins: chemistry /
Flavoproteins: metabolism / Oxidation-Reduction /
Photochemistry / Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate:
chemistry / Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate: metabolism /
Cryptochromes (NLM Chemicals) / Drosophila Proteins (NLM
Chemicals) / Flavoproteins (NLM Chemicals) / Flavin-Adenine
Dinucleotide (NLM Chemicals) / Deoxyribodipyrimidine
Photo-Lyase (NLM Chemicals) / J (WoSType)},
cin = {INB-2},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB805},
pnm = {Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK409},
shelfmark = {Biochemistry $\&$ Molecular Biology},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:17298948},
UT = {WOS:000245942800071},
doi = {10.1074/jbc.M608872200},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/59166},
}