Table 1.

Various light-inducible systems developed since 2012.

Light	DBD	A/RD	Photoreceptor and partner	Host	Reference
Blue	ZFP	VP16 AD	LOV and GI	Human cell	Polstein et al.109
Red	TALE	VP64 AD	Cry2 and CIB1	Mammalian cell	Konermann et al.110
Red	Gal4	VP16 AD	PhyB and PIF3	Mammalian cell	Müller et al.111
UV-B			UVR8 and COP1
Blue			LOVpep and PDZ
Red	TetR	VP16 AD	PhyB and PIF3	Plant cell	Müller et al.112
Blue	CRISPR/Cas9	VP64 AD	Cry2 and CIB1	Mammalian cell	Polstein et al.113
Blue	CRISPR/Cas9	P65 AD	Cry2 and CIB1	Mammalian cell	Nihongaki et al.114
Blue	LexA	VP16 AD	Cry2 and CIB1	S. cerevisiae	Taslimi et al.115
Red	TALE	VP64 AD	PhyB and PIF3	S. cerevisiae	Hochrein et al.53
Red	TALE	VP64 AD	PhyB and PIF3	S. cerevisiae	Hochrein et al.57
Blue	N terminal-T7 RNAPs	C terminal-T7 RNAPs AD	nMag and pMag	E. coli	Baumschlager et al.116
Blue	LexA	Gal4 AD	ClpX and ClpP	S. cerevisiae	Xu et al.117
Blue	Gal4	Gal4 AD	WC-1 and VVD	S. cerevisiae	Salinas et al.118
Blue	TetR	P65 AD	Cry2 and CIB1	Plant cell	Yamada et al.119
Green	AdoB12	VP16 AD	CarH and CarO	Plant cell Mammalian cell	Chatelle et al.52
Blue	ZFP	VP16 AD	CRY2 and CIB1	S. cerevisiae	An-adirekkun et al.120
Blue	NLS	dCas9 RD	LOV and α helix	S. cerevisiae	Geller et al.121