Cryptochrome

Cryptochrome
Cryptochrome 1 (photolyase-like)

Crystal structure of the PHR domain of cryptochrome 1 from Arabidopsis thaliana.[1]
Identifiers
Symbols CRY1; PHLL1
External IDs OMIM: 601933 MGI: 1270841 HomoloGene: 7042 GeneCards: CRY1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE CRY1 209674 at tn.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 1407 12952
Ensembl ENSG00000008405 ENSMUSG00000020038
UniProt Q16526 P97784
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004075 NM_007771
RefSeq (protein) NP_004066 NP_031797
Location (UCSC) Chr 12:
105.91 – 106.01 Mb		 Chr 10:
84.56 – 84.61 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Cryptochrome 2 (photolyase-like)
Identifiers
Symbols CRY2; FLJ10332; HCRY2; KIAA0658; PHLL2
External IDs OMIM: 603732 MGI: 1270859 HomoloGene: 56466 GeneCards: CRY2 Gene
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE CRY2 212695 at tn.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 1408 12953
Ensembl ENSG00000121671 ENSMUSG00000068742
UniProt Q49AN0 Q99JJ1
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001127457.1 XM_994658
RefSeq (protein) NP_001120929.1 XP_999752
Location (UCSC) Chr 11:
45.87 – 45.9 Mb		 Chr 2:
92.24 – 92.27 Mb
PubMed search [3] [4]

Cryptochromes (from the Greek κρυπτό χρώμα, hidden colour) are a class of blue light-sensitive flavoproteins found in plants and animals. Cryptochromes are involved in the circadian rhythms of plants and animals, and in the sensing of magnetic fields in a number of species. The name Cryptochrome was proposed as a pun combining the cryptic nature of the photoreceptor, and the cryptogamic organisms on which many blue light studies were carried out. [2]

The two genes Cry1 and Cry2 code for the two cryptochrome proteins CRY1 and CRY2.[3] In insects and plants, CRY1 regulates the circadian clock in a light-dependent fashion, whereas in mammals, CRY1 and CRY2 act as light-independent inhibitors of CLOCK-BMAL1 components of the circadian clock.[4] In plants, blue light photoreception can be used to cue developmental signals.[1]

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Discovery

Although Charles Darwin first documented plant responses to blue light in the 1800s, it was not until the 1980s that research began to identify the pigment responsible.[5] In 1980, researchers discovered that the HY4 gene of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana was necessary for the plant's blue light sensitivity, and when the gene was sequenced in 1993, it showed high sequence homology with photolyase, a DNA repair protein activated by blue light.[6] By 1995, it became clear that the products of the HY4 gene and its two human homologs did not exhibit photolyase activity and were instead a new class of blue light photoreceptor hypothesized to be circadian photopigments.[7] In 1996 and 1998, Cry homologs were identified in Drosophila and mice, respectively.[8][9]

Evolutionary history and structure

Cryptochromes (CRY1,CRY2) are evolutionarily old and highly conserved proteins that belong to the flavoproteins superfamily that exists in all kingdoms of life.[1] All members of this superfamily have the characteristics of an N-terminal photolyase homology (PHR) domain. The PHR domain can bind to the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor and a light-harvesting chromophore.[1] Cryptochromes are derived from and closely related to photolyases, which are bacterial enzymes that are activated by light and involved in the repair of UV-induced DNA damage. In eukaryotes, cryptochromes no longer retain this original enzymatic activity.[10]

The structure of cryptochrome involves a fold very similar to that of photolyase, with a single molecule of FAD noncovalently bound to the protein.[1] These proteins have variable lengths and surfaces on the C-terminal end, due to the changes in genome and appearance that result from the lack of DNA repair enzymes. The Ramachandran plot[11] shows that the secondary structure of the CRY1 protein is primarily a right-handed alpha helix with little to no steric overlap.[12] The structure of CRY1 is almost entirely made up of alpha helices, with several loops and few beta sheets. The molecule is arranged as an orthogonal bundle.[1]

Function

Phototropism

In plants, cryptochromes mediate phototropism, or directional growth towards a light source, in response to blue light. This response is now known to have its own set of photoreceptors, the phototropins. Unlike phytochromes and phototropins, cryptochromes are not kinases. Their flavin chromophore is reduced by light and transported into the cell nucleus, where it affects the turgor pressure and causes subsequent stem elongation. Specifically, Cry2 is responsible for blue-light mediated cotyledon and leaf expansion. Cry2 overexpression in transgenic plants increases blue light-stimulated cotyledon expansion, which results in many broad leaves and no flowers, rather than a few primary leaves with a flower.[13] A double loss-of-function mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana Early Flowering 3 (elf3) and Cry2 genes delays flowering under continuous light was shown to accelerates it during long and short days, which suggests that Arabidopsis CRY2 may play a role in accelerating flowering time during continuous light.[14]

Light capture

Despite much research on the topic, cryptochrome photoreception and phototransduction in Drosophila and Arabidopsis thaliana is still poorly understood. Cryptochromes are known to possess two chromophores: pterin (in the form of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolic acid (MHF)) and flavin (in the form of FAD).[15] Both may absorb a photon, and in Arabidopsis, pterin appears to absorb at a wavelength of 380 nm and flavin at 450 nm. Past studies have supported a model by which energy captured by pterin is transferred to flavin.[16] Under this model of phototransduction, FAD would then be reduced to FADH, which probably mediates the phosphorylation of a certain domain in cryptochrome. This could then trigger a signal transduction chain, possibly affecting gene regulation in the cell nucleus.

Recent research has indicated that a different mechanism may function in Drosophila. The true ground state of the flavin cofactor in Drosophila CRY is still debated, with some models indicating the FAD is in an oxidized form [17], while others support a model in which the flavin cofactor exists in anion radical form, FAD•-. Recently, researchers have observed that oxidized FAD is readily reduced to FAD•- by light. Furthermore, mutations that blocked photoreduction had no effect on light-induced degradation of CRY, while mutations that altered the stability of FAD•- destroyed CRY photoreceptor function.[18][19]These observations provide support for a ground state of FAD•-. Researchers have also recently proposed a model in which FAD•- is excited to its doublet or quartet state by absorption of a photon, which then leads to a conformational change in the CRY protein.[20]

Circadian rhythm

Studies in animals and plants suggest that cryptochromes play a pivotal role in the generation and maintenance of circadian rhythms.[21] In Drosophila, cryptochrome (dCRY) acts as a blue-light photoreceptor that directly modulates light input into the circadian clock[22], while in mammals, cryptochromes (CRY1 and CRY2) act as transcription repressors within the circadian clockwork.[23] Some insects, including the monarch butterfly, have both a mammal-like and a Drosophila-like version of cryptochrome, providing evidence for an ancestral clock mechanism involving both light sensing and transcriptional repression roles for cryptochrome.[24][25]

Cry mutants have altered circadian rhythms, showing that Cry affects the circadian pacemaker. Drosophila with mutated Cry exhibit little to no mRNA cycling.[26] A point mutation in cryb, which is required for flavin association in CRY protein, results in no PER or TIM protein cycling in either DD or LD.[27] In addition, mice lacking Cry1 or Cry2 genes exhibit differentially altered free running periods, but are still capable of photoentrainment. However, mice that lack both Cry1 and Cry2 are arrhythmic in both LD and DD and always have high Per1 mRNA levels. These results suggest that cryptochromes play a photoreceptive role, as well as acting as negative regulators of Per gene expression in mice.[28]

In Drosophila

In Drosophila, cryptochrome functions as a blue light photoreceptor. Exposure to blue light induces a conformation similar to that of the always active CRY mutant with a C-terminal deletion (CRYΔ).[20] The half-life of this conformation is 15 minutes in the dark and facilitates the binding of CRY to other clock gene products, PER and TIM, in a light-dependent manner.[20][22][4][29] Once bound by dCRY, dTIM is committed to degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system.[29][20]

Although light pulses do not entrain, full photoperiod LD cycles can still drive cycling in the ventral-lateral neurons in the Drosophila brain. These data along with other results suggest that CRY is the cell-autonomous photoreceptor for body clocks in Drosophila and may play a role in nonparametric entrainment (entrainment by short discrete light pulses). However, the lateral neurons receive light information through both the blue light CRY pathway and the rhodopsin pathway. Therefore, CRY is involved in light perception and is an input to the circadian clock, but is not required for the operation of the clock because the rhodopsin pathway is sufficient in the absence of the CRY pathway.[30] Recently, it has also been shown that there is a CRY-mediated light response that is independent of the classical circadian CRY-TIM interaction. This mechanism is believed to require a flavin redox-based mechanism that is dependent on potassium channel conductance. This CRY mediated light response has been shown to increase action potential firing within seconds of a light response in opsin-knockout Drosophila.[31]

Cryptochrome, like many genes involved in circadian rhythm, shows circadian cycling in mRNA and protein levels. In Drosophila, Cry mRNA concentrations cycle under a light-dark cycle (LD), with high levels in light and low levels in the dark.[26] This cycling persists in constant darkness (DD), but with decreased amplitude.[26] The transcription of the Cry gene also cycles with a similar trend.[26] CRY protein levels, however, cycle in a different manner than Cry transcription and mRNA levels. In LD, CRY protein has low levels in light and high levels in dark, and in DD, CRY levels increase continuously throughout the subjective day and night.[26] Thus, CRY expression is regulated by the clock at the transcriptional level and by light at the translational and posttranslational level.[26]

Overexpression of Cry also affects circadian light responses. In Drosophila, Cry overexpression increases flies’ sensitivity to low intensity light.[26] This light regulation of CRY protein levels suggests that CRY has a circadian role upstream of other clock genes and components.[26]

In mammals

Cryptochrome is one of the four groups of mammalian clock genes/proteins that generate a transcription-translation negative-feedback loop (TTFL), along with Period (PER), CLOCK, and BMAL1.[32] In this loop, CLOCK and BMAL1 proteins are transcriptional activators, which together bind to the promoters of the Cry and Per genes and activate their transcription.[32] The CRY and PER proteins then bind to each other, enter the nucleus, and inhibit CLOCK-BMAL1 activated transcription.[32]

In mice, Cry1 expression displays circadian rhythms in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, a brain region involved in the generation of circadian rhythms, with mRNA levels peaking during the light phase and reaching a minimum in the dark.[33]These daily oscillations in expression are maintained in constant darkness. [33]

While CRY has been well established as a TIM homolog in mammals, the role of CRY as a photoreceptor in mammals has been controversial. Early papers indicated that CRY has both light-independent and dependent functions. A study in 2000 indicated that mice without rhodopsin but with cryptochrome still respond to light; however, in mice without either rhodopsin or cryptochrome, c-Fos transcription, a mediator of light sensitivity, significantly drops.[34] In recent years, data have supported melanopsin as the main circadian photoreceptor, particularly melanopsin cells which mediate entrainment and communication between the eye and the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).[35] One of the main difficulties in confirming or denying CRY as a mammalian photoreceptor is that when the gene is knocked out the animal goes arrhythmic, so it is hard to measure its capacity as purely a photoreceptor. However, some recent studies indicate that human CRY may mediate light response in peripheral tissues.[36]

Normal mammalian circadian rhythm relies critically on delayed expression of Cry1 following activation of the Cry1 promoter. Whereas rhythms in Per2 promoter activation and Per2 mRNA levels have almost the same phase, Cry1 mRNA production is delayed by approximately four hours relative to Cry1 promoter activation.[37] This delay is independent of CRY1 or CRY2 levels and is mediated by a combination of E/E’-box and D-box elements in the promoter and RevErbA/ROR binding elements (RREs) in the gene’s first intron.[38] Transfection of arrhythmic Cry1-/- Cry2-/- double-knockout cells with only the Cry1 promoter (causing constitutive Cry1 expression) is not sufficient to rescue rhythmicity. Transfection of these cells with both the promoter and the first intron is required for restoration of circadian rhythms in these cells.[38]

Magnetoception

Cryptochromes in the photoreceptor neurons of birds' eyes are involved in magnetic orientation during migration.[39] Cryptochromes are also essential for the light-dependent ability of Drosophila to sense magnetic fields.[40] Furthermore, magnetic fields affect cryptochromes in Arabidopsis thaliana: growth behavior is affected by magnetic fields in the presence of blue ( but not red) light.[41]

According to one model,[42] cryptochrome forms a pair of two radicals with correlated spins when exposed to blue light. The occurrence of such light-generated radical pairs and the correlation of the radical pair state have been confirmed recently in a cryptochrome of Xenopus laevis.[43] However, recent evidence from Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochrome also suggests that radical pairs can be generated by the light-independent dark reoxidation of Flavin protein by molecular oxygen through the formation of a spin-correlated FADH-superoxide radical pairs.[44] Magnetoception is hypothesized to function through the surrounding magnetic fields effect on the correlation (parallel or anti-parallel) of these radicals, which affects the duration that cryptochrome remains activated. Activation of cryptochrome may affect the light-sensitivity of retinal neurons, with the overall result that the animal can "see" the magnetic field.[45]

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  • Cryptochrome — (von griechisch κρυπτός, kryptós, „verborgen“ und χρωμα, chróma, „Farbe“) sind 50–70 kDa schwere Flavoproteine, die als Fotorezeptoren für blaues Licht fungieren können. Sie wurden erstmals 1993 in Pflanzen identifiziert und seitdem auch in… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Cryptochrome — Les Cryptochromes sont une famille de photorécepteur des plantes et des animaux. Le mot cryptochrome dérive du grec κρυπτό χρώμα (krupto chroma), qui signifie couleur cachée. Les Cryptochromes se retrouvent dans toutes les espèces de plantes.… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • cryptochrome — See CR1 …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • cryptochrome — noun Any of several light sensitive flavoproteins, in the protoreceptors of plants, that regulate germination, elongation and photoperiodism …   Wiktionary

  • cryptochrome — Flavoprotein ultraviolet A receptor involved in circadian rhythm entrainment in plants, insects, and mammals …   Medical dictionary

  • cryptochrome —  n.m. Protéine photoréceptrice …   Le dictionnaire des mots absents des autres dictionnaires

  • cryptochrome — crypˈtochrome noun A light sensitive pigment, a photoreceptor protein, thought to control the circadian rhythm • • • Main Entry: ↑crypt …   Useful english dictionary

  • Cryptochrom — Cryptochrome (CRY1 und CRY2) sind Blaulichtrezeptoren, welche lange nur bei Pflanzen bekannt waren. Cryptochrome und Phototropine aus Arabidopsis und anderen höheren Pflanzen sind molekulargenetisch und biochemisch gut charakterisiert.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Kryptochrom — Cryptochrome (CRY1 und CRY2) sind Blaulichtrezeptoren, welche lange nur bei Pflanzen bekannt waren. Cryptochrome und Phototropine aus Arabidopsis und anderen höheren Pflanzen sind molekulargenetisch und biochemisch gut charakterisiert.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • CRY1 — Cryptochrome 1 (photolyase like), also known as CRY1, is a plant and human gene. PBB Summary section title = summary text = PBB Controls update page = yes require manual inspection = no update protein box = yes update summary = yes update… …   Wikipedia

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