Phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of the CRY:PER:kinase complex

Summary
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Reactome
R-HSA-9931530
PubChem
R-HSA-9931530
Description
  • Cryptochrome proteins (CRY1, CRY2) and Period proteins (PER1, PER2, PER3) are translated in the cytosol. CDK5 phosphoryates PER2 in the cytosol and phosphorylated PER2 interacts with CRY1 (inferred from mouse homologs in Brenna et al. 2019). The heterodimer associates with kinases Casein kinase I delta (CSNK1D) and Casein kinase I epsilon (CSNK1E) and other CRY and PER proteins in a large complex in the cytosol (inferred from mouse homologs in Nangle et al. 2014, Aryal et al. 2017) and the CRY and PER proteins are phosphorylated by CSNK1D and CSNK1E (Toh et al. 2001, Camacho et al. 2001, inferred from mouse homologs in Akashi et al. 2002, Eide et al. 2002, reviewed in Hirano et al. 2016, Yang et al. 2017, Ode et al. 2018, Narasimamurthy and Virshup 2021). The large complex containing the phosphorylated CRY and PER proteins is then translocated into the nucleus (inferred from mouse homologs in Kume et al. 1999, Vielhaber et al. 2000, Aryal et al. 2017, Cao et al. 2023), though there is a discrepancy in the measured sizes of the nuclear complex. Cao et al. (2023) used gel exclusion chromatography and glycerol gradient centrifugation and found a mass of 707 kDa: Aryal et al. (2017) used a novel electrophoretic method and found a mass of 1.9 MDa. The large CRY:PER:kinase complex then associates with phosphorylated BMAL1:CLOCK heterodimers (and likely with BMAL1:NPAS2 heterodimers) and represses the transactivation activity of BMAL1:CLOCK (inferred from mouse homologs in Griffin et al. 1999, Ye et al. 2014, Chiou et al. 2016, Cao et al. 2021).
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Supported by JST NBDC Grant Number JPMJND2204

Partly supported by NIH Common Fund Grant #1U01GM125267-01


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