Cryptochrome

2023-10-07:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochrome one of the coolest rabbitholes I’ve seen in a while

Cryptochrome #

Blue-light sensitive flavoproteins that are also involved in magnetoreception. (Crypto from cryptogram, the kind of plants that don’t make seeds or whatever, is where they were first studied or something.)

• Mammals have Cry1 and Cry2. Former is a transcription repressor, and the latter is a photoreceptor. Both are central to the Circadian Rhythm.