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This #JIPB mini-review packs a 1-2 punch!
Explore the remarkable dual-action mechanism of #Arabidopsis #cryptochromes right here⬇️🔓

➡️https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13578

@wileyplantsci
#CRY #photoregulation #PlantDevelopment #gene #GeneExpression #SciComm #PlantScience #botany

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This #JIPB mini-review explores the remarkable dual-action mechanism of #Arabidopsis #cryptochromes.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13578

#CRY #photoregulation #PlantDevelopment #gene #GeneExpression #SciComm #PlantSci #PlantScience #botany

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06009-4

"Cry engages a continuous core of amino-terminal Tim armadillo repeats, resembling how #photolyases recognize damaged DNA, and binds a C-terminal Tim helix, reminiscent of the interactions between light-insensitive #cryptochromes and their partners in mammals..a phosphorylated segment in Tim may impact clock period by regulating the binding of Importin-α and the nuclear import of Tim–Per"

#circadianRhythms #Drosophila #genetics #geneRegulation #oscillator #periodicity

Sensing Blue Light: From #Bacteria to #Birds https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/04/sensing-blue-light-from-bacteria-to-birds.html @STCmicrobeblog

"How #photolyases and #cryptochromes evolved to carry out their different light-dependent functions is unclear. Their capacity to sense blue light is a feature that likely evolved very early in Earth's history. Thus, plant and animal cryptochromes probably evolved from some ancestral photolyases. One of the most fascinating adaptations is, undoubtedly, the involvement of cryptochromes in #bird #navigation."

In all organisms of the green lineage, #cryptochromes control the internal daily rhythm. This was discovered by researchers @[email protected] who studied the genes for the internal clock of green #algae, #mosses and flowering #plants.

➡️ https://www.uni-jena.de/en/220405-innere-uhr-der-gruenen-organismen