... ortholog of Caenorhabditis elegans (AhR-1C.E.), neither photoaf®nity labeled by a dioxin analog, nor activated by b-naphto¯avone in a yeast system [20]; the rainbow trout AhRa that binds TCDD [21] and ... Powell-Coman, J .A. , Brad®eld, C .A & Wood, W.B (1998) Caenorhabditis elegans orthologs of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and its heterodimerization partner the aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator ... domain and PYP are activated by ligands; in FixL, oxygen binding at the heme binding PAS domain controls the activity of a histidine kinase domain [12]; and in PYP, a local conformational change...