Albrecht, UrsDepartment of Medicine, Division of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2007
Published in:
Nature Chemical Biology. - 2007, vol. 3, p. 139 - 140
English
The circadian clock runs with a period of about 24 h and therefore allows mammals to predict sunrise at the cellular level. Phosphorylation of the clock protein period 2 influences this process by varying the clock’s period length.