Flavins photobiology

Flavin photochemistry is an obligatory forerunner of flavin photobiology which, in the recent past has developed into a field of its own and will apparently become more and more important (see below). 

Flavins (152), benzoamielated derivatives of lumazine (145), are implicated in a variety of photobiological processes such as photodynamic action, phototropism, phototaxis, and photosynthesis. The biologically active H form 152a of alloxazine (R = R = R = = H) is less stable in... 

Tu, S.-C., Bacterial bioluminescence biochemistry, in CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Horspool, WM. and Song, R-S., Eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, p. 1587. Tu, S.-C., Reduced flavin donor and acceptor enzymes and mechanisms of channeling, Antiaxid. Redox Signal, 3, 881, 2001. 

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