CRYPTOCHROME mediates behavioral executive choice in response to UV light

LS Baik, KJ Fogle, L Roberts… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Drosophila melanogaster CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) mediates behavioral and
electrophysiological responses to blue light coded by circadian and arousal neurons …

CRYPTOCHROME-mediated phototransduction by modulation of the potassium ion channel β-subunit redox sensor

KJ Fogle, LS Baik, JH Houl, TT Tran… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Blue light activation of the photoreceptor CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) evokes rapid
depolarization and increased action potential firing in a subset of circadian and arousal …

Distinct mechanisms of Drosophila CRYPTOCHROME-mediated light-evoked membrane depolarization and in vivo clock resetting

LS Baik, DD Au, C Nave, AJ Foden… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Drosophila CRYPTOCHROME (dCRY) mediates electrophysiological depolarization and
circadian clock resetting in response to blue or ultraviolet (UV) light. These light-evoked …

CRYPTOCHROME is a blue-light sensor that regulates neuronal firing rate

KJ Fogle, KG Parson, NA Dahm, TC Holmes - Science, 2011 - science.org
Light-responsive neural activity in central brain neurons is generally conveyed through
opsin-based signaling from external photoreceptors. Large lateral ventral arousal neurons …

An extraretinally expressed insect cryptochrome with similarity to the blue light photoreceptors of mammals and plants

ES Egan, TM Franklin… - Journal of …, 1999 - Soc Neuroscience
Photic entrainment of insect circadian rhythms can occur through either extraretinal (brain)
or retinal photoreceptors, which mediate sensitivity to blue light or longer wavelengths …

Cryptochromes: sensory reception, transduction, and clock functions subserving circadian systems

JC Hall - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2000 - Elsevier
Cryptochromes (CRYs) are blue-light-absorbing proteins involved in a variety of biological
phenomena. In animals, CRYs exhibit a certain versatility with regard to these organisms' …

A constitutively active cryptochrome in Drosophila melanogaster

S Dissel, V Codd, R Fedic, KJ Garner, R Costa… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Light-activated cryptochrome (CRY) regulates circadian photoresponses in Drosophila
melanogaster. Removing the carboxy (C) terminus to create CRYΔ produces, in yeast, a …

One Actor, Multiple Roles: The Performances of Cryptochrome in Drosophila

M Damulewicz, GM Mazzotta - Frontiers in physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cryptochromes (CRYs) are flavoproteins that are sensitive to blue light, first identified in
Arabidopsis and then in Drosophila and mice. They are evolutionarily conserved and play …

Cryptochrome Interacts With Actin and Enhances Eye-Mediated Light Sensitivity of the Circadian Clock in Drosophila melanogaster

M Schlichting, D Rieger, P Cusumano… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cryptochromes (CRYs) are a class of flavoproteins that sense blue light. In animals, CRYs
are expressed in the eyes and in the clock neurons that control sleep/wake cycles and are …

Pleiotropic effects of cryptochromes 1 and 2 on free-running and light-entrained murine circadian rhythms

RN Van Gelder, TM Gibler, D Tu, K Embry… - Journal of …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Cryptochromes function in both light entrainment of circadian rhythms and in a peripheral
circadian clock mechanism in Drosophila. Mice have two closely related cryptochrome …