PHOT1

Summary

Gene Symbol: PHOT1
Description: non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase
Alias: F16L2.3, JK224, NONPHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL 1, NPH1, PHOTOTROPIN, ROOT PHOTOTROPISM 1, RPT1, phototropin 1
Species: thale cress

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Domain swapping to assess the mechanistic basis of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 receptor kinase activation and endocytosis by blue light
    Eirini Kaiserli
    Plant Science Group, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
    Plant Cell 21:3226-44. 2009
  2. ncbi Phototropin LOV domains exhibit distinct roles in regulating photoreceptor function
    John M Christie
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California 94305, USA
    Plant J 32:205-19. 2002
  3. ncbi Cellular and subcellular localization of phototropin 1
    Koji Sakamoto
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Plant Cell 14:1723-35. 2002
  4. ncbi Arabidopsis NPH3: A NPH1 photoreceptor-interacting protein essential for phototropism
    A Motchoulski
    Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Science 286:961-4. 1999
  5. ncbi The Arabidopsis PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE2 protein is a phototropin signaling element that regulates leaf flattening and leaf positioning
    Matthieu de Carbonnel
    Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Plant Physiol 152:1391-405. 2010
  6. ncbi PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE 1 is a phototropin 1 binding protein required for phototropism
    Patricia Lariguet
    Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:10134-9. 2006
  7. ncbi Blue light-induced autophosphorylation of phototropin is a primary step for signaling
    Shin Ichiro Inoue
    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810 8560, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:5626-31. 2008
  8. ncbi In vivo phosphorylation site mapping and functional characterization of Arabidopsis phototropin 1
    Stuart Sullivan
    Plant Science Group, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Mol Plant 1:178-94. 2008
  9. ncbi Molecular basis of the functional specificities of phototropin 1 and 2
    Yusuke Aihara
    Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Plant J 56:364-75. 2008
  10. ncbi Arabidopsis NPH1: a protein kinase with a putative redox-sensing domain
    E Huala
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Science 278:2120-3. 1997

Scientific Experts

  • Masayoshi Nakasako
  • Martina Königer
  • Darron R Luesse
  • Takatoshi Kagawa
  • John M Christie
  • Satoru Tokutomi
  • Daisuke Matsuoka
  • Shin Ichiro Inoue
  • Ken Ichiro Shimazaki
  • Stuart Sullivan
  • Yusuke Nakasone
  • Ken-Ichiro Shimazaki
  • Koji Okajima
  • Matthieu de Carbonnel
  • Eirini Kaiserli
  • Emmanuel Liscum
  • Patricia Lariguet
  • Noriyuki Suetsugu
  • Toshinori Kinoshita
  • Shin-ichiro Inoue
  • Winslow R Briggs
  • P Lehmann
  • Satoshi Ichikawa
  • Diana Roberts
  • Melissa Hamner Magerøy
  • Hitomi Katsura
  • Yiping Qi
  • Ullas V Pedmale
  • Matthew A Jones
  • Kazunori Zikihara
  • M Rob G Roelfsema
  • Masamitsu Wada
  • Christian Fankhauser
  • Isabelle Schepens
  • Bin Kang
  • Yusuke Aihara
  • Xu Chen
  • In Seob Han
  • Takeshi Eitoku
  • Tong Seung Tseng
  • Masahide Terazima
  • Holger Marten
  • Hae Young Cho
  • Candace Galen
  • Michio Doi
  • Kumi Ueno
  • Atsushi Takemiya
  • Koji Sakamoto
  • M Wada
  • T Kinoshita
  • T Sakai
  • Mark Hannink
  • Pascal Genschik
  • J Nöthen
  • M T Bohnsack
  • Shrikesh Sachdev
  • Akeo Kadota
  • Esther Lechner
  • O Mirus
  • S Schmidt von Braun
  • Johanna Morrow
  • Ning Zheng
  • E Schleiff
  • Xiaobo Tang
  • Noboru Yamada
  • James Shinkle
  • Markus Geisler
  • Kevin M Folta
  • Roger Hangarter
  • Phillip Davis
  • Erin H Kowalik
  • Shizue Yoshihara
  • Fumiaki Katagiri
  • Kevin A Feeney
  • Sarah Burney
  • Nicolas Grancher
  • Sheng Luan
  • Ryohei Tabata
  • W R Briggs
  • Yuan Wang
  • Keiichi I Nakayama
  • Wen-Hui Lin
  • Hong Wei Xue
  • Wen Hui Lin
  • William Eisinger
  • Tomomi Suzuki
  • Catriona E Thomson
  • A Motchoulski
  • Vladimir Koyffmann
  • Masaki Matsumoto

Detail Information

Publications38

  1. ncbi Domain swapping to assess the mechanistic basis of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 receptor kinase activation and endocytosis by blue light
    Eirini Kaiserli
    Plant Science Group, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
    Plant Cell 21:3226-44. 2009
    Phototropins (phot1 and phot2) are plasma membrane-associated receptor kinases that respond specifically to blue and UV wavelengths...
  2. ncbi Phototropin LOV domains exhibit distinct roles in regulating photoreceptor function
    John M Christie
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California 94305, USA
    Plant J 32:205-19. 2002
    ..Here we have used the Cys39Ala mutation to investigate the role of LOV1 and LOV2 in regulating phototropin function...
  3. ncbi Cellular and subcellular localization of phototropin 1
    Koji Sakamoto
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Plant Cell 14:1723-35. 2002
    b>Phototropin 1 (phot1) is a Ser/Thr photoreceptor kinase that binds two molecules of flavin mononucleotide as its chromophores and undergoes autophosphorylation in response to blue light...
  4. ncbi Arabidopsis NPH3: A NPH1 photoreceptor-interacting protein essential for phototropism
    A Motchoulski
    Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Science 286:961-4. 1999
    Phototropism of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings in response to a blue light source is initiated by nonphototropic hypocotyl 1 (NPH1), a light-activated serine-threonine protein kinase...
  5. ncbi The Arabidopsis PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE2 protein is a phototropin signaling element that regulates leaf flattening and leaf positioning
    Matthieu de Carbonnel
    Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Plant Physiol 152:1391-405. 2010
    ..Systematic analysis of mutants reveals that PKS2 (and to a lesser extent PKS1) act in the same subset of phototropin-controlled responses as NPH3, namely leaf flattening and positioning...
  6. ncbi PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE 1 is a phototropin 1 binding protein required for phototropism
    Patricia Lariguet
    Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:10134-9. 2006
    ..Lateral differences in low fluence rates of blue light are detected by phototropin 1 (phot1) in Arabidopsis...
  7. ncbi Blue light-induced autophosphorylation of phototropin is a primary step for signaling
    Shin Ichiro Inoue
    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810 8560, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:5626-31. 2008
    ..sites of Ser or Thr in the N terminus, Hinge1 region, kinase domain, and C terminus in Arabidopsis phototropin1 (phot1) by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in vivo...
  8. ncbi In vivo phosphorylation site mapping and functional characterization of Arabidopsis phototropin 1
    Stuart Sullivan
    Plant Science Group, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Mol Plant 1:178-94. 2008
    Phototropins (phot1 and phot2) are blue-light receptor kinases controlling a range of responses that optimize the photosynthetic efficiency of plants...
  9. ncbi Molecular basis of the functional specificities of phototropin 1 and 2
    Yusuke Aihara
    Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Plant J 56:364-75. 2008
    A blue-light photoreceptor in plants, phototropin, mediates phototropism, chloroplast relocation, stomatal opening, and leaf-flattening responses...
  10. ncbi Arabidopsis NPH1: a protein kinase with a putative redox-sensing domain
    E Huala
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Science 278:2120-3. 1997
    The NPH1 (nonphototropic hypocotyl 1) gene encodes an essential component acting very early in the signal-transduction chain for phototropism...
  11. ncbi Phototropins promote plant growth in response to blue light in low light environments
    Atsushi Takemiya
    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka, 810 8560, Japan
    Plant Cell 17:1120-7. 2005
    ..Here, we report dramatic phototropin-dependent effects on plant growth...
  12. ncbi Phot1 and phot2 mediate blue light regulation of stomatal opening
    T Kinoshita
    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810 8560, Japan
    Nature 414:656-60. 2001
    ..responses have identified four blue light receptors, cryptochrome 1 (cry1), cryptochrome 2 (cry2), phot1 and phot2...
  13. ncbi Arabidopsis nph1 and npl1: blue light receptors that mediate both phototropism and chloroplast relocation
    T Sakai
    RIKEN The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Plant Science Center, Sakyo ku, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:6969-74. 2001
    ..These include light-driven chloroplast movement and phototropism. The NPH1 gene of Arabidopsis encodes an autophosphorylating protein kinase that functions as a photoreceptor for ..
  14. ncbi Functional ecology of a blue light photoreceptor: effects of phototropin-1 on root growth enhance drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Candace Galen
    Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 7400, USA
    New Phytol 173:91-9. 2007
    The blue light photoreceptor phototropin-1 has been shown to enhance fitness in Arabidosis thaliana under field conditions...
  15. ncbi Physiological roles of the light, oxygen, or voltage domains of phototropin 1 and phototropin 2 in Arabidopsis
    Hae Young Cho
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California 94301, USA
    Plant Physiol 143:517-29. 2007
    ..These constructs encode either wild-type phototropin or phototropin with one or both LOV-domain cysteines mutated to block their photochemistry...
  16. ncbi Evidence of physiological phototropin1 (phot1) action in response to UV-C illumination
    Melissa Hamner Magerøy
    Horticultural Sciences Department and the Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    Plant Signal Behav 5:1204-10. 2010
    ..Arabidopsis seedlings were used to assess the genetic mechanism of this response. The phot1 mutant exhibited defects in stem growth rate inhibition, with sustained growth inhibition completely absent ..
  17. ncbi Blue light-induced phototropism of inflorescence stems and petioles is mediated by phototropin family members phot1 and phot2
    Takatoshi Kagawa
    Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305 8577 Japan
    Plant Cell Physiol 50:1774-85. 2009
    b>Phototropin family photoreceptors, phot1 and phot2, in Arabidopsis thaliana control the blue light (BL)-mediated phototropic responses of the hypocotyl, chloroplast relocation movement and stomatal opening...
  18. ncbi Modulation of phototropic responsiveness in Arabidopsis through ubiquitination of phototropin 1 by the CUL3-Ring E3 ubiquitin ligase CRL3(NPH3)
    Diana Roberts
    Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
    Plant Cell 23:3627-40. 2011
    ..response pathway have been identified in recent years, including the blue light (BL) receptors phototropin1 (phot1) and phot2, much remains unknown...
  19. ncbi Red light, Phot1 and JAC1 modulate Phot2-dependent reorganization of chloroplast actin filaments and chloroplast avoidance movement
    Satoshi Ichikawa
    Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, 192 0397 Japan
    Plant Cell Physiol 52:1422-32. 2011
    The phototropin (phot)-dependent intracellular relocation of chloroplasts is a ubiquitous phenomenon in plants. We have previously revealed the involvement of a short cp-actin (chloroplast actin) filament-based mechanism in this movement...
  20. ncbi phot1 inhibition of ABCB19 primes lateral auxin fluxes in the shoot apex required for phototropism
    John M Christie
    Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    PLoS Biol 9:e1001076. 2011
    ..auxin efflux transporter ATP-BINDING CASSETTE B19 (ABCB19) as a substrate target for the photoreceptor kinase PHOTOTROPIN 1 (phot1)...
  21. ncbi Transitions of gene expression induced by short-term blue light
    P Lehmann
    JWGU Frankfurt am Main, CEF Macromolecular Complexes, Centre of Membrane Proteomics, Department of Biosciences, Frankfurt, Germany
    Plant Biol (Stuttg) 13:349-61. 2011
    ..Three genes were identified as important for the latter process, namely PHOT1, PHOT2 and CHUP1. The former two phototropin blue light receptors act in perception of the blue light signal...
  22. ncbi Light, genotype, and abscisic acid affect chloroplast positioning in guard cells of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves in distinct ways
    Martina Königer
    Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
    Photosynth Res 105:213-27. 2010
    ..This was not the case for phot1-5/phot2-1 or phot2-1 plants, thus phototropins are essential for chloroplast positioning in guard cells...
  23. ncbi Integration of Phot1, Phot2, and PhyB signalling in light-induced chloroplast movements
    Darron R Luesse
    Department of Biological Sciences, Science Laboratory Building 3326, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026, USA
    J Exp Bot 61:4387-97. 2010
    ..The regulation of these chloroplast movements involves members of both the phototropin and phytochrome families of photoreceptors...
  24. ncbi Oligomeric structure of LOV domains in Arabidopsis phototropin
    Hitomi Katsura
    Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Naka ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
    FEBS Lett 583:526-30. 2009
    Oligomeric structures of the four LOV domains in Arabidopsis phototropin1 (phot1) and 2 (phot2) were studied using crosslinking...
  25. ncbi Purification of low-abundance Arabidopsis plasma-membrane protein complexes and identification of candidate components
    Yiping Qi
    Department of Plant Biology, Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Plant J 57:932-44. 2009
    ..We identified RIN4, a known RPS2 interactor, as well as other potential components of the RPS2 complex(es). Thus, the HPB tag method is suitable for the purification of low-abundance PM protein complexes...
  26. ncbi Phytochrome A regulates the intracellular distribution of phototropin 1-green fluorescent protein in Arabidopsis thaliana
    In Seob Han
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 680 749, Korea
    Plant Cell 20:2835-47. 2008
    ..by low fluence rates of blue light prevent the blue light-induced loss of green fluorescent protein-tagged phototropin 1 (PHOT1-GFP) from the plasma membrane of cortical cells of transgenic seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana ..
  27. ncbi Arabidopsis NPH1: a flavoprotein with the properties of a photoreceptor for phototropism
    J M Christie
    Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Science 282:1698-701. 1998
    The NPH1 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a 120-kilodalton serine-threonine protein kinase hypothesized to function as a photoreceptor for phototropism...
  28. ncbi Biochemical characterization of plasma membrane H+-ATPase activation in guard cell protoplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to blue light
    Kumi Ueno
    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu 4 2 1 Fukuoka, 810 8560 Japan
    Plant Cell Physiol 46:955-63. 2005
    Recent genetic analysis showed that phototropins (phot1 and phot2) function as blue light receptors in stomatal opening of Arabidopsis thaliana, but no biochemical evidence was provided for this...
  29. ncbi An auxilin-like J-domain protein, JAC1, regulates phototropin-mediated chloroplast movement in Arabidopsis
    Noriyuki Suetsugu
    Division of Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
    Plant Physiol 139:151-62. 2005
    ..Together, these results suggest that JAC1 is an essential component of phototropin-mediated chloroplast movement.
  30. ncbi Blue light-regulated molecular switch of Ser/Thr kinase in phototropin
    Daisuke Matsuoka
    Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Osaka Prefecture University, 1 2 Gakuen cho, Sakai, Osaka 599 8570, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13337-42. 2005
    b>Phototropin is a blue light photoreceptor for tropic responses, relocation of chloroplasts, and stomata opening in plants...
  31. ncbi Dynamics of conformational changes of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 LOV2 with the linker domain
    Yusuke Nakasone
    Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606 8502, Japan
    J Mol Biol 367:432-42. 2007
    Conformational changes of Arabidopsis phot1-LOV2 with the linker (phot1-LOV2-linker) were investigated from the viewpoint of the changes in molecular volume and molecular diffusion coefficient (D) by time-resolved transient grating (TG) ..
  32. ncbi Blue light inhibits guard cell plasma membrane anion channels in a phototropin-dependent manner
    Holger Marten
    Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius von Sachs Institute for Biosciences, Biocenter, Wurzburg University, Julius von Sachs Platz 2, D 97082 Wurzburg, Germany
    Plant J 50:29-39. 2007
    ..Blue light also inhibited plasma membrane anion channels in A. thaliana guard cells, but not in the phot1 phot2 double mutant...
  33. ncbi Multiple interactions between cryptochrome and phototropin blue-light signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Bin Kang
    Penn State University, Media, PA 19104, USA
    Planta 227:1091-9. 2008
    ..Specifically, in a phot1-deficient genetic background (phot1 mutant), curvature is reduced in the absence of cryptochromes, particularly at ..
  34. ncbi An inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase functions in PHOTOTROPIN1 signaling in Arabidopis by altering cytosolic Ca2+
    Xu Chen
    Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science University of California Berkeley Center of Molecular Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20032 Shanghai, China
    Plant Cell 20:353-66. 2008
    ..independently from CRYPTOCHROME1 and CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 but interacted functionally with PHOTOTROPIN1 (PHOT1)...
  35. ncbi Structural basis of the LOV1 dimerization of Arabidopsis phototropins 1 and 2
    Masayoshi Nakasako
    Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3 14 1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku Ku, Kanagawa 223 8522, Japan
    J Mol Biol 381:718-33. 2008
    b>Phototropin (phot) is a blue-light receptor protein that triggers phototropic responses, chloroplast relocation, and stomata opening to maximize the efficiency of photosynthesis in higher plants...
  36. ncbi Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis [correction of anaylsis] of the LOV1 domains of phototropin 1 and 2 from Arabidopsis thaliana
    Masayoshi Nakasako
    Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3 14 1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku Ku, Kanagawa 223 8522, Japan
    Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 64:617-21. 2008
    ..Higher plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana have two isoforms of phototropin: phototropin 1 and phototropin 2...
  37. ncbi Stability of dimer and domain-domain interaction of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 LOV2
    Yusuke Nakasone
    Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606 8502, Japan
    J Mol Biol 383:904-13. 2008
    Transient grating signals after photoexcitation of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 light-oxygen-voltage 2 (phot1LOV2) domain without the linker were found to be very sensitive to temperature...
  38. ncbi LOV2-linker-kinase phosphorylates LOV1-containing N-terminal polypeptide substrate via photoreaction of LOV2 in Arabidopsis phototropin1
    Koji Okajima
    Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Gakuen cho 1 1, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka 599 8531, Japan
    FEBS Lett 585:3391-5. 2011
    b>Phototropin is a blue light receptor in plants and is thought to be a light-regulated protein kinase...