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period

gene
Also known as: PER

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    • Hall
      • In Jeffrey C. Hall

        …of the period gene product, PER, fluctuated in the fruit fly brain, with PER building up at night and declining during the day. The oscillations, they discovered, were the result of a negative feedback loop, whereby PER was produced until it reached a specific level, at which point it then…

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    • Rosbash
      • In Michael Rosbash

        …levels of the protein product, PER, oscillated during the circadian cycle, accumulating in cell nuclei overnight and being degraded through the day. Their findings led them to propose a model whereby PER was self-regulating, inhibiting its own transcription (synthesis of RNA from DNA) when its protein levels reached a critical…

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    • Young
      • In Michael W. Young

        …successfully isolated and sequenced the period gene, a feat also achieved that year by Rosbash and Hall. Young further showed that introducing a fragment of DNA from the period gene locus into the genome of period-mutant flies restored circadian rhythm, thereby demonstrating the functional significance of the gene.

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