title: COP1 patrols the night beat.
abstract: Light regulates the behaviour of many organisms. New data indicate that the greening of plants is facilitated by light-dependent stabilization of a transcription factor that is rapidly degraded in darkness. Thus, photomorphogenesis joins cell division and circadian rhythm as another critical biological process that is governed by proteolysis.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Deshaies
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meyerowitz
mesh_terms: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003624:Darkness; D008025:Ligases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000528:radiation effects; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; C471983:AT2G32950 protein, Arabidopsis; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D008025:Ligases