Encodes a phytochrome photoreceptor with a function similar to that of phyB that absorbs the red/far-red part of the light spectrum and is involved in light responses. It cannot compensate for phyB loss in Arabidopsis but can substitute for tobacco phyB in vivo.
Computational Description
phytochrome D (PHYD); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Phytochrome, central region (InterPro:IPR013515), Signal transduction histidine kinase, core (InterPro:IPR005467), PAS fold (InterPro:IPR013767), PAS (InterPro:IPR000014), Phytochrome chromophore attachment domain (InterPro:IPR016132), ATPase-like, ATP-binding domain (InterPro:IPR003594), PAS fold-2 (InterPro:IPR013654), Phytochrome A/B/C/D/E (InterPro:IPR012129), Phytochrome (InterPro:IPR001294), Phytochrome chromophore binding site (InterPro:IPR013516), Signal transduction histidine kinase, subgroup 1, dimerisation/phosphoacceptor domain (InterPro:IPR003661), GAF (InterPro:IPR003018); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: phytochrome B (TAIR:AT2G18790.1); Has 26426 Blast hits to 26152 proteins in 3833 species: Archae - 221; Bacteria - 20797; Metazoa - 4; Fungi - 482; Plants - 3855; Viruses - 5; Other Eukaryotes - 1062 (source: NCBI BLink).