Usually means: Protein sensitive to blue light.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cryptochrome)

noun:  (biochemistry) Any of several light-sensitive flavoproteins, involved in the circadian rhythms of plants and animals, and possibly also in the sensing of magnetic fields.

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