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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 139 - 140 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0307-139
Per2 has time on its side
Urs Albrecht1
- 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
Abstract
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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