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Action at a distance in a light receptor

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A tour de force of X-ray scattering has yielded structures of a phytochrome photoreceptor in its dark and illuminated states, showing how localized protein refolding magnifies a light signal to form a cellular message. See Letter p.245

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Figure 1: Signal magnification in phytochrome light sensors.

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  1. Anna W. Baker and Katrina T. Forest are in the Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.,

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Baker, A., Forest, K. Action at a distance in a light receptor. Nature 509, 174–175 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13331

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