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Spatiotemporal separation of PER and CRY posttranslational regulation in the mammalian circadian clock

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authors

  • St John, P. C.
  • Hirota, T.
  • Kay, Steve A.
  • Doyle III, F. J.

publication date

  • February 2014

journal

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

abstract

  • Posttranslational regulation of clock proteins is an essential part of mammalian circadian rhythms, conferring sensitivity to metabolic state and offering promising targets for pharmacological control. Two such regulators, casein kinase 1 (CKI) and F-box and leucine-rich repeat protein 3 (FBXL3), modulate the stability of closely linked core clock proteins period (PER) and cryptochrome (CRY), respectively. Inhibition of either CKI or FBXL3 leads to longer periods, and their effects are independent despite targeting proteins with similar roles in clock function. A mechanistic understanding of this independence, however, has remained elusive. Our analysis of cellular circadian clock gene reporters further differentiated between the actions of CKI and FBXL3 by revealing opposite amplitude responses from each manipulation. To understand the functional relationship between the CKI-PER and FBXL3-CRY pathways, we generated robust mechanistic predictions by applying a bootstrap uncertainty analysis to multiple mathematical circadian models. Our results indicate that CKI primarily regulates the accumulating phase of the PER-CRY repressive complex by controlling the nuclear import rate, whereas FBXL3 separately regulates the duration of transcriptional repression in the nucleus. Dynamic simulations confirmed that this spatiotemporal separation is able to reproduce the independence of the two regulators in period regulation, as well as their opposite amplitude effect. As a result, this study provides further insight into the molecular clock machinery responsible for maintaining robust circadian rhythms.

subject areas

  • Adenine
  • Animals
  • Carbazoles
  • Circadian Clocks
  • Cryptochromes
  • F-Box Proteins
  • Genes, Reporter
  • HEK293 Cells
  • Humans
  • Mammals
  • Models, Biological
  • Period Circadian Proteins
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • Signal Transduction
  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis
  • Sulfonamides
  • Time Factors
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Research

keywords

  • gene regulation
  • identifiability analysis
  • sensitivity analysis
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3918757

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0027-8424

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.1323618111

PubMed ID

  • 24449901
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 2040

end page

  • 2045

volume

  • 111

issue

  • 5

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