A Circadian Sleep Disorder Reveals a Complex Clock

Emmanuel Mignot, Joseph S. Takahashi

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Abstract

Circadian rhythms are established by transcription of clock genes and autoregulatory transcriptional feedback loops. In this issue, Xu et al. (2007) characterize mice expressing a human Per2 mutation identified in patients with familial advanced sleep phase syndrome. Their results reveal that PER2 phosphorylation, by CK1δ and other kinases, is surprisingly complex and has opposite effects on PER2 levels and period length.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)22-23
Number of pages2
JournalCell
Volume128
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 12 2007

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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