Abstract

Recent progress in clock research has revealed major molecular components in the mechanisms responsible for circadian time keeping in mammals. The first vertebrate clock mutation ( tau) was discovered in the Syrian hamster more than a decade ago and, using the power of comparative genomics, this gene has now been cloned. We now know that tau is the mammalian homologue of a Drosophila circadian clock component ( double-time) that plays an important role in regulating clock protein turnover.

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