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S. Giovannardi, L. Landò, and A. Peres are in the Dipartimento di Biologia Strutturale e Funzionale, Università dell'Insubria, Via Dunant 3,21100 Varese, Italy.
Photorelease of bioactive molecules from inactive precursors is a very powerful tool for the study of the molecular mechanisms underlying physiological processes as diverse as ionic channel modulation, exocytosis, phototransduction, ligand-receptor interaction, and cross-bridge activity. A brief account of the methodology, available compounds, and fields of application is presented here.
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