Circadian Oscillators: Around the Transcription–Translation Feedback Loop and on to Output

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 834-846

  Hurley, Jennifer M ^a   Loros, Jennifer J ^b   Dunlap, Jay C ^b  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

antisense.; clock; intrinsically disordered protein; codon bias; PTO; TTFL

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; CODON; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CODON; ENVIRONMENT; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FUNGI; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84991716912     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.07.009     Document Type: Review

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