CRY2 expression was silenced in MCF7 cells using siRNA oligos, in order to examine the impact of CRY2 knockdown on carcinogenic processes. CRY2 was ~3-fold down-regulated in both replicates, relative to negative control.
Sun-loving plants have the ability to detect and avoid shading through sensing of both blue and red light wavelengths. Higher plant cryptochromes (CRYs) control how plants modulate growth in response to changes in blue light. For growth under a canopy, where blue light is diminished, CRY1 and CRY2 p...
In order to study possible effects of cryptochrome 2-mediated light signals on the global expression profiles of tomato genes, we performed large scale transcription comparisons in wt and CRY2-OX by using a DNA microarray of more than 90,000 tomato oligo-probes. Tomato plants were grown under a d...
Disruption of circadian rhythms increases the risk of several types of cancer. Mammalian cryptochromes (CRY1 and CRY2) are circadian transcriptional repressors that are related to DNA repair enzymes. While CRYs lack DNA repair activity, they modulate the transcriptional response to DNA damage, and C...
