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Full-Text Articles in Medical Biochemistry
A Developmental Cycle Masks Output From The Circadian Oscillator Under Conditions Of Choline Deficiency In Neurospora, Mi Shi, Luis F. Larrondo, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap
A Developmental Cycle Masks Output From The Circadian Oscillator Under Conditions Of Choline Deficiency In Neurospora, Mi Shi, Luis F. Larrondo, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap
Dartmouth Scholarship
In Neurospora, metabolic oscillators coexist with the circadian transcriptional/translational feedback loop governed by the FRQ (Frequency) and WC (White Collar) proteins. One of these, a choline deficiency oscillator (CDO) observed in chol-1 mutants grown under choline starvation, drives an uncompensated long-period developmental cycle ( approximately 60-120 h). To assess possible contributions of this metabolic oscillator to the circadian system, molecular and physiological rhythms were followed in liquid culture under choline starvation, but these only confirmed that an oscillator with a normal circadian period length can run under choline starvation. This finding suggested that long-period developmental cycles elicited by nutritional stress …
Circadian Clock-Specific Roles For The Light Response Protein White Collar-2, Michael A. Collett, Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros
Circadian Clock-Specific Roles For The Light Response Protein White Collar-2, Michael A. Collett, Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros
Dartmouth Scholarship
To understand the role of white collar-2 in theNeurospora circadian clock, we examined alleles ofwc-2 thought to encode partially functional proteins. We found that wc-2 allele ER24 contained a conservative mutation in the zinc finger. This mutation results in reduced levels of circadian rhythm-critical clock gene products, frq mRNA and FRQ protein, and in a lengthened period of the circadian clock. In addition, this mutation altered a second canonical property of the clock, temperature compensation: as temperature increased, period length decreased substantially. This temperature compensation defect correlated with a temperature-dependent increase in overall FRQ protein levels, with the …