The Magnetic Compass of Birds: The Role of Cryptochrome
Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 The geomagnetic field provides directional information for birds. The avian magnetic compass is an inclination compass that uses not the polarity of the magnetic field but the axial course of the field lines and their inclination in space.
Roswitha Wiltschko +2 more
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The Gain and Loss of Cryptochrome/Photolyase Family Members during Evolution [PDF]
Genes, 2022 The cryptochrome/photolyase (CRY/PL) family represents an ancient group of proteins fulfilling two fundamental functions. While photolyases repair UV-induced DNA damages, cryptochromes mainly influence the circadian clock.
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Direct Interaction of Avian Cryptochrome 4 with a Cone Specific G-Protein
Cells, 2022 Background: Night-migratory birds sense the Earth’s magnetic field by an unknown molecular mechanism. Theoretical and experimental evidence support the hypothesis that the light-induced formation of a radical-pair in European robin cryptochrome 4a ...
Katharina Görtemaker +11 more
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Cryptochrome-mediated blue-light signal contributes to carotenoids biosynthesis in microalgae
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Microalgae are considered as ideal cell factories for producing natural carotenoids which display favorable biological activities. As the most important abiotic factor, light not only provides energy for photosynthetic metabolism, but also regulates ...
Zhongyi Zhang +4 more
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Discovery of a small molecule that selectively destabilizes Cryptochrome 1 and enhances life span in p53 knockout mice [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2022 Cryptochromes are negative transcriptional regulators of the circadian clock in mammals. It is not clear how reducing the level of endogenous level of the CRY1 in mammals will affect circadian rhythm and the relation of such a decrease with apoptosis is ...
Şeref Gül +19 more
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JACS Au, 2021 Many birds are endowed with a visual magnetic sense that may exploit magnetosensitive radical recombination processes in the protein cryptochrome. In this widely accepted but unproven model, geomagnetic sensitivity is suggested to arise from variations ...
Nathan S. Babcock, Daniel R. Kattnig
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The SnackerTracker: A novel home-cage monitoring device for measuring food-intake and food-seeking behaviour in mice [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Wellcome Open ResearchBackground Accurately measuring activity and feeding is important in laboratory animal research, whether for welfare-monitoring or experimental recording.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy +8 more
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Localisation of the Putative Magnetoreceptive Protein Cryptochrome 1b in the Retinae of Migratory Birds and Homing Pigeons. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Cryptochromes are ubiquitously expressed in various animal tissues including the retina. Some cryptochromes are involved in regulating circadian activity.
Petra Bolte +10 more
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Protein-protein interaction of the putative magnetoreceptor cryptochrome 4 expressed in the avian retina [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 Migratory birds can sense the Earth’s magnetic field and use it for orientation over thousands of kilometres. A light-dependent radical-pair mechanism associated with the visual system is currently discussed as the underlying mechanism of the magnetic ...
Haijia Wu +4 more
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Dynamics and mechanism of DNA repair by a bifunctional cryptochrome. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance The discovery of some cryptochromes possessing photolyase function is exciting and such bifunctional cryptochromes may play significant roles in vivo.
Yan L +5 more
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