Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA
Tel: +1-310-206-9576; Fax: +1-310-206-3987
E-mail: clin@mcdb.ucla.edu
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Lin/
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=1074
Area of expertise: Flower induction; photoperception; photomorphgenesis
Co-editor until: Dec. 31, 2010

• Yang YJ, Zuo ZC, Zhao XY, Li X, Klejnot J, Li Y, Chen P, Liang SP, Yu XH, Liu XM, Lin CT (2008) Blue light-independent activity of Arabidopsis cryptochromes in the regulation of steady-state levels of protein and mRNA expression. Mol. Plant 1, 167-177 .
• Yu X, Lin C (2008) A photoreceptor going nowhere but the nucleus. Plant Signal. Behav. 3, 1-2.
• Liu H, Yu X, Li K, Klejnot J, Yang H, Lisiero D, Lin C (2008) Photoexcited CRY2 interacts with CIB1 to regulate transcription and floral initiation in Arabidopsis. Science 322, 1535-1539.
• Zhang Q, Li H, Li R, Hu R, Fan C, Chen F, Wang Z, Liu X, Fu Y, Lin C (2008) Association of the circadian rhythmic expression of GmCRY1a with a latitudinal cline in photoperiodic flowering of soybean. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 21028-21033.
• Zhao X, Yu X, Foo E, Symons GM, Lopez J, Bendehakkalu KT, Xiang J, Weller JL, Liu X, Reid JB, Lin C (2007) A study of Gibberellin homeostasis and cryptochrome-mediated blue light inhibition of hypocotyl elongation. Plant Physiol. 145, 106-118.
• Yu X, Shalitin D, Liu X, Maymon M, Klejnot J, Yang H, Lopez J, Zhao X, Bendehakkalu KT, Lin C (2007) Derepression of the NC80 motif is critical for the photoactivation of Arabidopsis CRY2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 7289-7294.
• Yu X, Klejnot J, Zhao X, Shalitin D, Maymon M, Yang H, Lee J, Liu X, Lopez J, Lin C (2007) Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 completes its posttranslational life cycle in the nucleus. Plant Cell 19, 3146-3156.
• Lin C, Todo T (2005) The cryptochromes. Genome Biol. 6, 220-228.
• Mockler TC, Yu X, Shalitin D, Parikh D, Michael TP, Liou J, Huang J, Smith Z, Alonso JM, Ecker JR, Chory J, Lin C (2004) Regulation of flowering time in Arabidopsis by KH-domain proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 12759-12764.
• Shalitin D, Yu X, Maymon M, Mockler T, Lin C (2003) Blue light-dependent in vivo and in vitro phosphorylation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 1. Plant Cell 15, 2421-2429.
• Lin C, Shalitin D (2003) Cryptochrome structure and signal transduction. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 54, 469-496.
• Mockler T, Yang H, Yu X, Parikh D, Cheng YC, Dolan S, Lin C (2003) Regulation of photoperiodic flowering by Arabidopsis photoreceptors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 2140-2145.
• Shalitin D, Yang H, Mockler TC, Maymon M, Guo H, Whitelam GC, Lin C (2002) Regulation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 by blue-light-dependent phosphorylation. Nature 417, 763-767.
• Guo H, Mockler T, Duong H, Lin C (2001) SUB1, an Arabidopsis Ca2+-binding protein involved in cryptochrome and phytochrome coaction. Science 291, 487-490.
• Mockler TC, Guo H, Yang H, Duong H, Lin C (1999) Antagonistic actions of Arabidopsis cryptochromes and phytochrome B in the regulation of floral induction. Development 126, 2073-2082.
• Guo H, Yang H, Mockler TC, Lin C (1998) Regulation of flowering time by Arabidopsis photoreceptors. Science 279, 1360-1363.
• Lin C, Yang H, Guo H, Mockler T, Chen J, Cashmore AR (1998) Enhancement of blue-light sensitivity of Arabidopsis seedlings by a blue light receptor cryptochrome 2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 2686-2690.