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シルカディアンリズムは,真核生物で転写されずに持続する
John S O'Neill1, Gerben van Ooijen, Laura E Dixon
1Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh, C.H. Waddington Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JD, UK.
Nature
|January 29, 2011
まとめ
ユカリオットの日々のリズムは,遺伝子発現によってのみ動かされるわけではありません. ペロキシレドキシン酸化などの非転写メカニズムは,昼夜時計の計測に十分であり,種間で保存されています.
科学分野:
- *クロノバイオロジーと分子生物学.
- * ユーカリオット生体循環系.
背景:
- *日経リズムは,転写・翻訳フィードバックループによって駆動される,真核生物の毎日の生物学的プロセスを調節する.
- *トランスクリプションの時計の構成要素は王国によって異なるが,ポストトランスクリプションのメカニズムはますます認識されている.
- * 単細胞藻 (Ostreococcus tauri) は,植物のような特徴を持つ簡素化された時計を持っています.
研究 の 目的:
- * ユカリオット生体時計の非転写メカニズムの十分性と保存性を調査する.
- * 翻訳後の発見を踏まえ,振動器機能における転写成分の役割を再評価する.
主な方法:
- *Ostreococcus tauri*の昼夜リズム分析について
- * 転写独立のリズムバイオマーカーの特定.
- *哺乳類のクロックメカニズムの薬理学的な調節と, *オステロコクスの*リズムへの影響の評価.
主要な成果:
- * 転写以外のメカニズムは,多くの場合,転写要素と並行して作業するエウカリオットにおける昼夜計時を維持するのに十分です.
- * 転写独立のリズムバイオマーカーとして特定されたペロキシレドキシンタンパク質の酸化,哺乳類でも観察された.
- *哺乳類の昼夜リズムに影響する薬理学薬品の影響 *オステロコッカス*.
結論:
- * 翻訳後のメカニズムと特定のリズムマーカー (例えば,ペロキシレドキシン酸化) は,トランスクリプションのクロックレギュレーターよりも,真核生物王国全体でより保存されています.
- * 古代の昼間振動器の構成要素は,サイアノバクテリアと似たような非転写性であり,進化を通じて保存されている可能性があることを示唆しています.
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