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PHYSIOLOGY: Enhanced: Running a Clock Requires Quality Time Together
Jay C. Dunlap
The strictly timed disassembly of a protein complex before entry of its constituents into the nucleus influences the 24-hour period of the circadian clock.
The author is in the Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. E-mail: jay.c.dunlap{at}dartmouth.edu
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