Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Nat Rev Microbiol. 2011 Aug 8;9(10):713-23. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2622.
LOV (light, oxygen or voltage) domains are protein photosensors that are conserved in bacteria, archaea, plants and fungi, and detect blue light via a flavin cofactor. LOV domains are present in both chemotrophic and phototrophic bacterial species, in which they are found amino-terminally of signalling and regulatory domains such as sensor histidine kinases, diguanylate cyclases-phosphodiesterases, DNA-binding domains and regulators of RNA polymerase σ-factors. In this Review, we describe the current state of knowledge about the function of bacterial LOV proteins, the structural basis of LOV domain-mediated signal transduction, and the use of LOV domains as genetically encoded photoswitches in synthetic biology.
LOV(光、氧或电压)结构域是在细菌、古菌、植物和真菌中保守的蛋白质光感受器,通过黄素辅因子检测蓝光。LOV 结构域存在于化能营养菌和光能营养菌中,位于信号和调节结构域的氨基端,如传感器组氨酸激酶、双鸟苷酸环化酶-磷酸二酯酶、DNA 结合结构域和 RNA 聚合酶 σ 因子的调节剂。在这篇综述中,我们描述了细菌 LOV 蛋白功能的现有知识状态、LOV 结构域介导的信号转导的结构基础,以及 LOV 结构域作为遗传编码光开关在合成生物学中的应用。