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The Neurospora Circadian System
Jay C. Dunlap
Department of Genetics, Jay.C.Dunlap{at}dartmouth.edu
Jennifer J. Loros
Department of Genetics and Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
The eukaryotic filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa has proven to be a durable and dependable model system for the analysis of the cellular and molecular bases of circadian rhythms. Pioneering genetic analyses identified clock genes, and beginning with the cloning of frequency (frq), work over the past 2 decades has revealed the molecular basis of a core circadian clock feedback loop that has illuminated our understanding of circadian oscillators in microbes, plants, and animals. In this transcription/translation-based feedback loop, a heterodimer of the White Collar-1 (WC-1) and WC-2 proteins acts both as the circadian photoreceptor and, in the dark, as a transcription factor that promotes the expression of the frq gene. FRQ dimerizes and feeds back to block the activity of its activators (making a negative feedback loop), as well as feeding forward to promote the synthesis of its activator, WC-1. Phosphorylation of FRQ by several kinases leads to its ubiquitination and turnover, releasing the WC-1/WC-2 dimer to reactivate frq expression and restart the circadian cycle. Light resetting of the clock can be understood through the rapid light induction of frq expression and temperature resetting through the influence of elevated temperaturesin driving higher levels of FRQ. Several FRQ- and WC-independent, noncircadian FRQ-less oscillators (FLOs) have been described, each of which appears to regulate aspects of Neurospora growth or development. Overall, the FRQ/white collar complex feedback loop appears to coordinate the circadian system through its activity to regulate downstream-target clock-controlled genes, either directly or via regulation of driven FLOs.
Key Words: frq • wc-1 • wc-2 • FLO • circadian rhythm • evolutionary conservation • photo-receptor • feedback loop • light resetting • temperature responses
Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 19, No. 5,
414-424 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0748730404269116
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