Journal
TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 234-241Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2013.01.003
Keywords
circadian clock; biological rhythms; redox biology; metabolic oscillator
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Funding
- Wellcome Trust [083643/Z/07/Z]
- European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant ) [281348]
- European Research Council (Meta-CLOCK)
- EMBO Young Investigators Programme (EMBO YIP)
- MRC Centre for Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders (MRC CORD)
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- Swiss National Science Foundation [SNF 141119]
- Wellcome Trust [083643/Z/07/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- MRC [G0600717] Funding Source: UKRI
- European Research Council (ERC) [281348] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Medical Research Council [G0600717, MC_UU_12012/5/B, G0600717B] Funding Source: researchfish
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The circadian clock is a cellular timekeeping mechanism that helps organisms to organize their behaviour and physiology around daily alternations of days and nights. In humans, misalignment of an individual's internal clock with its environment is associated with adverse health consequences, including metabolic disorders and cancers. In current models of the eukaryotic circadian oscillator, transcription/translation feedback loops (TTFLs) are considered the prime mechanism sustaining intracellular rhythms. The discovery of many cytosolic loops has extended the TTFL model by embedding it in cellular physiology. Recently, however, several studies have revealed metabolic rhythms that are independent of transcription, questioning the TTFL model as the sole cellular timekeeping mechanism. Thus, the time has come to carefully reassess these models of the clockwork in a broad cellular context to integrate its genetic, cytosolic, and metabolic components.
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