UV-B resistance 8 (UVR8) also known as ultraviolet-B receptor UVR8 is an UV-B – sensing protein found in plants and possibly other sources. It is responsible...

plants). The plant protein UVR8 is exceptional amongst photoreceptors in that it contains no external chromophore. Instead, UVR8 absorbs light through tryptophan...

photoreceptor that controls phototropism. Plants show various responses to UV light. UVR8 has been shown to be a UV-B receptor. Plants undergo distinct photomorphogenic...

cryptochromes and phototropins, which respond to blue and ultraviolet-A light and UVR8, which is sensitive to ultraviolet-B light. Phytochromes consist of a protein...

homeodomain and Blazquez et al 2001 that fve produces a WD40 repeat. The UVR8 protein detects UV-B light and mediates the response to this DNA-damaging...

plants which is light-mediated and controlled by 5 distinct photoreceptors: UVR8, Cryptochrome, Phototropin, Phytochrome r and Phytochrome fr. Light can control...

muscle activity. A further example is seen in the plant UV-B sensing protein UVR8. Several tryptophan residues interact via cation–π interactions with arginine...

PMID 8990208. Kliebenstein, DJ; et al. (2002). "The Arabidopsis RCC1 homologue UVR8 mediates UV-B signal transduction and tolerance". Plant Physiology. 130 (1):...