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Molecular Bases for Circadian Clocks

Jay C. Dunlap
- 22 Jan 1999 - 
- Vol. 96, Iss: 2, pp 271-290
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It used to be that research in chronobiology moved biochemical functions [transcriptional activators], the along at a gentlemanly pace, but by mid 1997 the word in determining what the authors perceive as time was PASWCCLK.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1999-01-22 and is currently open access. It has received 2723 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Period Circadian Proteins & Bacterial circadian rhythms.

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A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

TL;DR: This work used three transcriptional repressor systems that are not part of any natural biological clock to build an oscillating network, termed the repressilator, in Escherichia coli, which periodically induces the synthesis of green fluorescent protein as a readout of its state in individual cells.
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Restricted feeding uncouples circadian oscillators in peripheral tissues from the central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

TL;DR: It is shown that temporal feeding restriction under light-dark or dark-dark conditions can change the phase of circadian gene expression in peripheral cell types by up to 12 h while leaving thephase of cyclic gene expressionIn the SCN unaffected.
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Resetting of circadian time in peripheral tissues by glucocorticoid signaling.

TL;DR: It is shown that the glucocorticoid hormone analog dexamethasone induces circadian gene expression in cultured rat-1 fibroblasts and transiently changes the phase of circadian gene Expression in liver, kidney, and heart, however, dexamETHasone does not affect cyclic geneexpression in neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
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Transcriptional architecture of the mammalian circadian clock

TL;DR: Genome-wide analyses of the clock transcriptional feedback loop have revealed a global circadian regulation of processes such as transcription factor occupancy, RNA polymerase II recruitment and initiation, nascent transcription, and chromatin remodelling.
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A Serum Shock Induces Circadian Gene Expression in Mammalian Tissue Culture Cells

TL;DR: The treatment of cultured rat-1 fibroblasts or H35 hepatoma cells with high concentrations of serum induces the circadian expression of various genes whose transcription also oscillates in living animals, and thus mimics light-induced immediate-early gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
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Individual neurons dissociated from rat suprachiasmatic nucleus express independently phased circadian firing rhythms

TL;DR: It is suggested that the SCN contains a large population of autonomous, single-cell circadian oscillators, and that synapses formed in vitro are neither necessary for operation of these oscillators nor sufficient for synchronizing them.
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Positional cloning of the mouse circadian clock gene.

TL;DR: CLOCK represents the second example of a PAS domain-containing clock protein (besides Drosophila PERIOD), which suggests that this motif may define an evolutionarily conserved feature of the circadian clock mechanism.
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Feedback of the Drosophila period gene product on circadian cycling of its messenger RNA levels

TL;DR: Observations indicate that the cycling of per-encoded protein could result from per RNA cycling, and that there is a feedback loop through which the activity of each per gene product causes cycling of its own RNA.
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