Nature Communications (May 2022)

Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 forms photobodies with TCP22 under blue light and regulates the circadian clock

  • Weiliang Mo,
  • Junchuan Zhang,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Zhenming Yang,
  • Liang Yang,
  • Nan Yao,
  • Yong Xiao,
  • Tianhong Li,
  • Yaxing Li,
  • Guangmei Zhang,
  • Mingdi Bian,
  • Xinglin Du,
  • Zecheng Zuo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30231-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cryptochrome signaling has been reported to regulate circadian oscillations in plants. Here the authors show that CRY2 and the TCP22 transcription factors can form photobodies in a blue light dependent manner and induce expression of CCA1, a core component of the circadian oscillator.