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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 139 - 140 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0307-139

Per2 has time on its side

Urs Albrecht1

  1. Urs Albrecht is in the Department of Medicine, Division of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Rue du Musée 5, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. e-mail: urs.albrecht@unifr.ch


The circadian clock runs with a period of about 24 h and therefore allows mammals to predict sunrise at the cellular level. Phosphorylation of the clock protein period 2 influences this process by varying the clock's period length.

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