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... Like every major animal on earth, humans have the cryptochrome molecule so that's been a persistent target for the belief that ...
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- Why You're Stiff In The Morning: Your Body Suppresses Inflammation When You Sleep At Night
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... the affected limbs during the night. This protein, called CRYPTOCHROME, has proven anti-inflammatory effects in cultured cells and ... and when this rhythm was disrupted by knocking out the cryptochrome gene there was an increased inflammatory response. This suggests ...
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- Atomic Structure Of Essential Circadian Clock Protein Complex Determined
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... determined by Wolf's team. By x-ray analysis of the cryptochrome-period complex structure, the researchers were able to observe atomic details of the interaction between the cryptochrome and period proteins and also discovered that the zinc ion mediates ...
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- Teenage Mutant Ninja Fruit Flies
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... 2007; Gegear et al., 2010; Gauger et al., 2011). Cryptochrome, showing the flavin residue in red and the tryptophan residues in ... In a nutshell, a light-sensitive protein called cryptochrome is thought to mediate bird magneto-vision via a ...
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- Protein In The Human Retina Can 'Sense' Magnetic Fields
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... say that a protein expressed in the human retina, human cryptochrome 2 protein (hCRY2), can sense magnetic fields when implanted into D ... the light-sensitive chemical reactions in the flavoprotein cryptochrome (CRY) are thought to play an important role in the ability to ...
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- Superoxide - Toxic Molecule May Be Essential To Bird Migration And 'Seeing' Earth's Magnetic Field
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... partner in a biochemical process involving the protein cryptochrome in a bird's eye. Cryptochrome is a blue-light photoreceptor found in plants and in the eyes of ...
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- 3D Structures Of Proteins That Control Circadian Rhythm Get Modeled
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... photolyase protein that is surprisingly similar to two cryptochrome proteins that control the "master clock" in humans and other ... provides a much better model to use to study how the cryptochrome proteins in the human clock function than we have ever had ... has been impossible to capture a crystal structure of the cryptochrome proteins that control the mammalian circadian clock because they ...
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- Nature's Oldest Aphrodisiac: Cryptochromes Under The Light Of The Moon
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... Professor David Miller of CoECRS and JCU. The coral cryptochrome genes were initially identified by Dr Levy and Dr Bill Leggat ...
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- Little-known Cell Networks Are Vital To Circadian Rhythm
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... for some genetic defects in the Period (Per) and Cryptochrome (Cry) genes-the clock genes-to preserve circadian rhythm. In fact, ...
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