Cryptochrome proteins help many organisms—including humans—set their biological clocks to the rising and setting of the sun, but sometimes that clock can fall out of sync. This @BioMedCentral study investigates a possible cause: https://t.co/EezFuspX5H #ni
I wrote a commentary with my PI @partchlab during shelter-in-place. If you want to read how an intrinsically disordered protein region functions as a flexible “molecular cog” in a “molecular clock” or why Cryptochrome proteins are the coolest, check out: h
The tail of cryptochromes: an intrinsically disordered cog within the mammalian circadian clock https://t.co/46hkCh3JqS