title: Cryptochromes: enabling plants and animals to determine circadian time.
abstract: Cryptochromes are flavin-containing blue light photoreceptors related to photolyases-they are found in both plants and animals and have recently been described for bacteria. In plants, cryptochromes perform a variety of functions including the entrainment of circadian rhythms. They serve a similar role in Drosophila and mammals, where the cryptochromes also perform an additional function as an essential component of the circadian clock.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D001683:Biological Clocks; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004330:Drosophila; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D005810:Multigene Family; D010834:Phytochrome / Q000737:chemistry*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D010834:Phytochrome; C471983:AT2G32950 protein, Arabidopsis; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases