Photoreceptor Pigment for Blue Light in Neurospora crassa |
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Authors: | Muñoz V Butler W L |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037. |
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Abstract: | Irradiating the mycelium of Neurospora crassa with moderate intensities of blue light causes a reversible photoreduction of a b-type cytochrome. The action spectrum for the photoreduction of cytochrome b is very similar to the absorption spectrum of flavin pigments. Prolonged irradiation of the mycelium with strong blue light irreversibly bleaches flavin-like pigments and as these pigments are bleached the photoresponse of cytochrome b is lost. We conclude from these and other data that a flavin is the photoreceptor pigment for the photoreduction of cytochrome b. The close similarity between the action spectrum for the photoreduction of cytochrome b and action spectra for a number of physiological photoresponses suggests that this photoreceptor pigment controls a wide variety of photobiological processes in a wide diversity of organisms. |
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