Tuning the mammalian circadian clock: Robust synergy of two loops

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Relógio, Angela ^a   Westermark, Pal O ^a   Wallach, Thomas ^b   Schellenberg, Katja ^b   Kramer, Achim ^b   Herzel, Hanspeter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; GENES; MAMMALS; SEARCH ENGINES;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN CLOCK; DEGRADATION RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTRACELLULAR NETWORKS; LIVING ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR CONSTITUENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

CLOCKS;

CRYPTOCHROME; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR1D1; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PER3 PROTEIN; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR BETA; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARNTL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; REV PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CLOCK PROTEINS; GENE PRODUCTS, REV; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP D, MEMBER 1; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84855259393     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002309     Document Type: Article

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