Circadian timekeeping and output mechanisms in animals

PE Hardin, S Panda - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•Work on circadian period determination and output gene regulation are
reviewed.•Clock protein glycosylation, ubiquitylation and translation influence 24 hours …

The molecular ticks of the Drosophila circadian clock

O Tataroglu, P Emery - Current opinion in insect science, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•The Drosophila circadian pacemaker consists of transcriptional feedback
loops.•Cascades of protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation determine period …

CRY2 and FBXL3 cooperatively degrade c-MYC

AL Huber, SJ Papp, AB Chan, E Henriksson… - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
For many years, a connection between circadian clocks and cancer has been postulated.
Here we describe an unexpected function for the circadian repressor CRY2 as a component …

The deubiquitinase USP8 targets ESCRT-III to promote incomplete cell division

J Mathieu, P Michel-Hissier, V Boucherit, JR Huynh - Science, 2022 - science.org
In many vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, gametes develop within groups of
interconnected cells called germline cysts formed by several rounds of incomplete divisions …

Molecular modulators of the circadian clock: lessons from flies and mice

L Mendoza-Viveros, P Bouchard-Cannon… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Circadian timekeeping is a ubiquitous mechanism that enables organisms to maintain
temporal coordination between internal biological processes and time of the local …

GIGANTEA recruits the UBP12 and UBP13 deubiquitylases to regulate accumulation of the ZTL photoreceptor complex

CM Lee, MW Li, A Feke, W Liu, AM Saffer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
ZEITLUPE (ZTL), a photoreceptor with E3 ubiquitin ligase activity, communicates end-of-day
light conditions to the plant circadian clock. It still remains unclear how ZTL protein …

A central role for ubiquitination within a circadian clock protein modification code

K Stojkovic, SS Wing, N Cermakian - Frontiers in molecular …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Circadian rhythms, endogenous cycles of about 24 h in physiology, are generated by a
master clock located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus and other clocks …

To Ub or not to Ub: Regulation of circadian clocks by ubiquitination and deubiquitination

SB Srikanta, N Cermakian - Journal of neurochemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Circadian clocks are internal timing systems that enable organisms to adjust their behavioral
and physiological rhythms to the daily changes of their environment. These clocks generate …

Alternative splicing of Clock transcript mediates the response of circadian clocks to temperature changes

YD Cai, X Liu, GK Chow, S Hidalgo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Circadian clocks respond to temperature changes over the calendar year, allowing
organisms to adjust their daily biological rhythms to optimize health and fitness. In …

MicroRNA-92a is a circadian modulator of neuronal excitability in Drosophila

X Chen, M Rosbash - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Many biological and behavioural processes of animals are governed by an endogenous
circadian clock, which is dependent on transcriptional regulation. Here we address post …