Circadian Clocks and Metabolism

Circadian clocks are cell endogenous, self-sustainable oscillators present in virtually every cell in the body, playing a fundamental role in cellular and tissue physiology. This internal timing system enables our organs to molecularly anticipate and prepare their metabolism for daily recurrent needs associated with environmental changes. While the circadian clock regulates metabolism, metabolic states, in turn, provide feedback to the circadian clock, modulating its function. We are investigating this molecular crosstalk in peripheral metabolic tissues from mice, employing interaction and spatial proteomics as well as phosphoproteomics.

Part of this work is supported by the DFG within the CRC1064 Chromatin Dynamics

Schmal C, Maier B, Ashwal-Fluss R, Bartok O, Finger AM, Bange T, Koutsouli S, Robles MS, Kadener S, Herzel H, Kramer A. (2023) Alternative polyadenylation factor CPSF6 regulates temperature compensation of the mammalian circadian clock. PLoS Biol. Jun 28;21(6):e3002164. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002164.

Hamzeiy H, Ferretti D, Robles MS*, and Cox J*. (2022) Perseus plugin ‘Metis’ for metabolic pathway-centered quantitative multi-omics data analysis supporting static and time-series experimental designs. Cell Reports Methods. doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100198. *co- corresponding author.

Hansen FM, Tanzer MC, Brüning F, Bludau I, Stafford C, Schulman BA, Robles MS*, Karayel O*, Mann M*. (2021) Data-independent acquisition method for ubiquitinome analysis reveals regulation of circadian biology. Nat Commun. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020- 20509-1.*co-corresponding author

Brüning F, Humphrey SJ, Robles MS (2020) Phosphoproteome and Proteome Sample Preparation from Mouse Tissues for Circadian Analysis. Methods Mol Biol. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0381-9_14.

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