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- Title
A computational approach to discovering the functions of bacterial phytochromes by analysis of homolog distributions.
- Authors
Lamparter, Tilman
- Abstract
Phytochromes are photoreceptors, discovered in plants, that control a wide variety of developmental processes. They have also been found in bacteria and fungi, but for many species their biological role remains obscure. This work concentrates on the phytochrome system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a non-photosynthetic soil bacterium with two phytochromes. To identify proteins that might share common functions with phytochromes, a co-distribution analysis was performed on the basis of protein sequences from 138 bacteria.
- Publication
BMC bioinformatics, 2006, Vol 7, p141
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-7-141