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A LOVely view of blue light photosensing

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A combination of structural and functional data provides insight into the mechanism used by the blue light photosensory protein Vivid to convert the light-driven formation of a protein-flavin bond into a conformational change in the surrounding protein.

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Figure 1: LOV domain signaling.

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  1. Abigail I. Nash and Kevin H. Gardner are in the Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Wen-Huang Ko, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-8816, USA. kevin.gardner@utsouthwestern.edu,

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