How the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii keeps time
How the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii keeps time
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绿藻莱茵衣藻如何计时
DOI:
10.1007/s00709-010-0113-0
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发表时间:
2010
期刊:
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Mittag
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
Schulze;Prager;Kießling;Mittag
The unicellular green algaChlamydomonas reinhardtiihas two flagella and a primitive visual system, the eyespot apparatus, which allows the cell to phototax. About 40 years ago, it was shown that the circadian clock controls its phototactic movement. Since then, several circadian rhythms such as chemotaxis, cell division, UV sensitivity, adherence to glass, or starch metabolism have been characterized. The availability of its entire genome sequence along with homology studies and the analysis of several sub-proteomes renderC. reinhardtiias an excellent eukaryotic model organism to study its circadian clock at different levels of organization. Previous studies point to several potential photoreceptors that may be involved in forwarding light information to entrain its clock. However, experimental data are still missing toward this end. In the past years, several components have been functionally characterized that are likely to be part of the oscillatory machinery ofC. reinhardtiisince alterations in their expression levels or insertional mutagenesis of the genes resulted in defects in phase, period, or amplitude of at least two independent measured rhythms. These include several RHYTHM OF CHLOROPLAST (ROC) proteins, a CONSTANS protein (CrCO) that is involved in parallel in photoperiodic control, as well as the two subunits of the circadian RNA-binding protein CHLAMY1. The latter is also tightly connected to circadian output processes. Several candidates including a significant number of ROCs, CrCO, and CASEIN KINASE1 whose alterations of expression affect the circadian clock have in parallel severe effects on the release of daughter cells, flagellar formation, and/or movement, indicating that these processes are interconnected inC. reinhardtii. The challenging task for the future will be to get insights into the clock network and to find out how the clock-related factors are functionally connected. In this respect, system biology approaches will certainly contribute in the future to improve our understanding of theC. reinhardtiiclock machinery.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0169-328x(99)00277-6
发表时间:
1999-12
期刊:
Brain research. Molecular brain research
影响因子:
--
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
14.9
作者:
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通讯作者:
Yokoyama S
影响因子:
7.4
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
2.9
作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2006
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Dobromir Iliev;Olga Voystekh;M. Mittag
通讯作者:
M. Mittag