Mammalian circadian biology: elucidating genome-wide levels of temporal organization

PL Lowrey, JS Takahashi - Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract During the past decade, the molecular mechanisms underlying the mammalian
circadian clock have been defined. A core set of circadian clock genes common to most cells …

Clock genes, oscillators, and cellular networks in the suprachiasmatic nuclei

MH Hastings, ED Herzog - Journal of biological rhythms, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
The mammalian SCN contains a biological clock that drives remarkably precise circadian
rhythms in vivo and in vitro. Recent advances have revealed molecular and cellular …

Circadian gene expression in individual fibroblasts: cell-autonomous and self-sustained oscillators pass time to daughter cells

E Nagoshi, C Saini, C Bauer, T Laroche, F Naef… - Cell, 2004 - cell.com
The mammalian circadian timing system is composed of a central pacemaker in the
suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the brain and subsidiary oscillators in most peripheral cell …

Circadian clock mutation disrupts estrous cyclicity and maintenance of pregnancy

BH Miller, SL Olson, FW Turek, JE Levine, TH Horton… - Current biology, 2004 - cell.com
Classic experiments have shown that ovulation and estrous cyclicity are under circadian
control and that surgical ablation of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) results in estrous …

Modeling feedback loops of the mammalian circadian oscillator

S Becker-Weimann, J Wolf, H Herzel, A Kramer - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
The suprachiasmatic nucleus governs daily variations of physiology and behavior in
mammals. Within single neurons, interlocked transcriptional/translational feedback loops …

Transcription regulation within the circadian clock: the E-box and beyond

PE Hardin - Journal of biological rhythms, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
The circadian oscillator is composed of transcriptional feedback loops in organisms ranging
from cyanobacteria to humans. These transcriptional feedback loops are so named because …

Direct association between mouse PERIOD and CKIε is critical for a functioning circadian clock

C Lee, DR Weaver, SM Reppert - Molecular and cellular biology, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mPER1 and mPER2 proteins have important roles in the circadian clock mechanism,
whereas mPER3 is expendable. Here we examine the posttranslational regulation of …

E-box function in a period gene repressed by light

D Vallone, SB Gondi, D Whitmore… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
In most organisms, light plays a key role in the synchronization of the circadian timing
system with the environmental day–night cycle. Light pulses that phase-shift the circadian …

Insight into molecular core clock mechanism of embryonic and early postnatal rat suprachiasmatic nucleus

M Sládek, A Sumová, Z Kováčiková… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Rhythmicity of the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a site of the circadian clock, develops
prenatally. A molecular clockwork responsible for the rhythmicity consists of clock genes and …

Clock genes in cell clocks: roles, actions, and mysteries

H Okamura - Journal of Biological Rhythms, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Cellular events must be organized in the time dimension as well as in the space dimension
for many proteins to perform their cellular functions effectively. The intracellular molecular …