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Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Microbiol. 2011 Aug 8;9(10):713–723. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2622

Table 1.

Selected LOV proteins from plant, fungi, and bacteria

	Protein name	cofactor	Effector domain	organism	Function	Ref.

Plant	Phot1	FMN	Ser/Thr kinase	Arabidopsis thaliana, Avena sativa	phototropism, chloroplast movement, stomatal opening	^50,126–128

Fungi	Vivid	FAD	-	Neurospora crassa	circadian pigment expression	^28,129
	WC-1	FAD	Zinc finger	Neurospora crassa	circadian photoreceptor, transcription factor	^26,27,30,130,
	WC-1 homolog	FMN	Zinc finger	Cryptococcus neoformans, Fusarium oxysporum, Histoplasma capsulatum	circadian photoreceptor, virulence regulation	^29,131–133

Bacteria	YtvA	FMN	STAS	Bacillus subtilis	stress response, sporulation (?)	^37,64,66
	Lov-HK	FMN	Histidine kinase	Brucella abortus	virulence regulation	³⁹
	SL2	FMN	GGDEF-EAL	Synechococcus elongatus	cyclic-di-GMP phosphodiesterase	⁷⁰
	LovK	FMN	Histidine kinase	Caulobacter crescentus	cell adhesion	³⁸