Putative blue-light photoreceptors from Arabidopsis thaliana and Sinapis alba with a high degree of sequence homology to DNA photolyase contain the two photolyase cofactors but lack DNA repair activity.

Malhotra K, Kim ST, Batschauer A, Dawut L, Sancar A
Biochemistry. 1995 May 23;34(20):6892-9. doi: 10.1021/bi00020a037. PubMed Article

Plasmids from Article

ID	Plasmid	Purpose
217825	pKM 1996	Expresses putative photoreceptor SA-phr1 from S. alba. This gene shows high homology to the phr genes in prokaryotes.
217826	pKM 1995	Expresses 1554 bp fragment of HY4 gene in A. thaliana. This HY4 fragment shows high homology to the phr genes in prokaryotes.