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Altered entrainment and feedback loop function effected by a mutant period protein.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Feb 2000
Schotland P, Hunter-Ensor M, Lawrence T, Sehgal A
Abstract excerpt
The period (per) and timeless (tim) genes encode interacting components of the circadian clock. Levels and phosphorylation states of both proteins cycle with a circadian rhythm, and the proteins drive cyclic expression of their RNAs through a feedback mechanism that is, at least in part, negative. We report here that a hypophosphorylated mutant PER protein, produced by creating a small internal deletion, displays...
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