"Cryptochromes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Flavoproteins that function as circadian rhythm signaling proteins in ANIMALS and as blue-light photoreceptors in PLANTS. They are structurally-related to DNA PHOTOLYASES and it is believed that both classes of proteins may have originated from an earlier protein that played a role in protecting primitive organisms from the cyclical exposure to UV LIGHT.
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D056931
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.128.150 D12.776.189.250 D12.776.331.180 D12.776.765.593.500
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cryptochromes" by people in Profiles.
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Tymanskyj SR, Escorce A, Karthikeyan S, Ma L. Optogenetic control of receptor-mediated growth cone dynamics in neurons. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Feb 01; 36(2):br5.
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Shafi AA, McNair CM, McCann JJ, Alshalalfa M, Shostak A, Severson TM, Zhu Y, Bergman A, Gordon N, Mandigo AC, Chand SN, Gallagher P, Dylgjeri E, Laufer TS, Vasilevskaya IA, Schiewer MJ, Brunner M, Feng FY, Zwart W, Knudsen KE. The circadian cryptochrome, CRY1, is a pro-tumorigenic factor that rhythmically modulates DNA repair. Nat Commun. 2021 01 15; 12(1):401.
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Lin DW, FitzGerald LM, Fu R, Kwon EM, Zheng SL, Kolb S, Wiklund F, Stattin P, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Ostrander EA, Feng Z, Gr?nberg H, Stanford JL. Genetic variants in the LEPR, CRY1, RNASEL, IL4, and ARVCF genes are prognostic markers of prostate cancer-specific mortality. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Sep; 20(9):1928-36.
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Koh K, Zheng X, Sehgal A. JETLAG resets the Drosophila circadian clock by promoting light-induced degradation of TIMELESS. Science. 2006 Jun 23; 312(5781):1809-12.