Table 5.

Characteristics and distribution of selected photosensory DGC/PDEs from bacteria.

Sensor type	Protein name	Species	Domains	Light dependence (in vitro)	Reference
Phy	RsBphG1 (Bph)	Rhodobacter sphaeroides	PAS-GAF-PHY-GGDEF-EAL	DGC activity is red light-dependent	Tarutina et al. (2006)
	IdPadC (Bph)	Idiomarina sp. A28L	PAS-GAF-PHY-GGDEF	DGC activity is red light-dependent	Gourinchas et al. (2017)
	XoBphP (Bph)	Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae	PAS-EAL-GAF-PHY-PAS	PDE activity is red light-dependent	Verma et al. (2020)
	SyCph2 (Cph)	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	GAF‐GAF‐GGDEF‐EAL‐GAF‐GGDEF	PDE activity is red light-dependent; DGC activity is blue light-dependent	Savakis et al. (2012)
	TeSesA/TeSesB/TeSesC (Cphs)	Thermosynechococcus elongatus	SesA: PAS-GAF‐GGDEF SesB: GAF-GGDEF‐EAL SesC:PAS-PAS-PAS-PAS-GAF-PAS-GGDEF‐EAL	DGC activity of SesA/SesC is blue light-dependent; PDE activity of SesB is teal light-dependent; PDE activity of SesC is green light-dependent	Enomoto et al. (2015)
LOV	SeSL2	Synechococcus elongatus	REC-PAS-PAC-LOV-GGDEF-EAL	PDE activity is blue light-dependent	Cao et al. (2010)
BLUF	KpBlrP1	Klebsiella pneumoniae	BLUF-EAL	PDE activity is blue light-dependent	Barends et al. (2009)
	MmBldP	Magnetococcus marinus	BLUF-EAL	PDE activity is blue light-dependent	Ryu et al. (2017a)
	RpPapA–RpPapB complex	Rhodopseudomonas palustris	PapA: EAL PapB: BLUF	PapA interacts with PapB; PDE activity of PapA is blue light-dependent via PapB BLUF domain	Kanazawa et al. (2010)