Selected Publications

Research Articles

Fujiwara, S., L. Wang, L. Han, S.S. Suh, P.A. Salomé, C.R. McClung & D.E. Somers.  2008. Post-translational regulation of the circadian clock through selective proteolysis and phosphorylation of pseudo-response regulator proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 23073-23083. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplemental Data]

Salomé, P.A., Q. Xie & C.R. McClung.  2008. Circadian timekeeping during early Arabidopsis development. Plant Physiol. 147: 1110-1125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Gutiérrez, R.A., T.L. Stokes, K. Thum, X. Xu, M. Obertello, M.S. Katari, M. Tanurdzic, A. Dean, D.C. Nero, C.R. McClung & G.M. Coruzzi. 2008. Systems approach identifies an organic nitrogen-responsive gene network that is regulated by the master clock control gene CCA1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105: 4939-4944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Salomé, P.A., J.P.C. To, J.J. Kieber & C.R. McClung. 2006. Arabidopsis response regulators ARR3 and ARR4 llay cytokinin-independent roles in the control of circadian period. Plant Cell 18: 55-69. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Voll, L.M., A. Jamai, P. Renné, H. Voll, C.R. McClung & A.P.M. Weber. 2006. The photorespiratory Arabidopsis shm1 mutant is deficient in SHM1. Plant Physiol. 140: 59-66. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material] [In This Issue]

Lidder, P., R.A. Gutiérrez, P.A. Salomé, C.R. McClung & P.J. Green. 2005. Circadian control of mRNA stability: association with DST-mediated mRNA decay. Plant Physiol. 138: 2374-2385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Salomé, P.A. & C.R. McClung. 2005. PSEUDO-RESPONSE REGULATOR 7 and 9 are partially redundant genes essential for the temperature responsiveness of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Plant Cell 17:791-803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [In This Issue]

Tseng, T.-S., P.A. Salomé, C.R. McClung & N.E. Olszewski. 2004. SPINDLY and GIGANTEA interact and act in Arabidopsis thaliana pathways involved in light responses, flowering and rhythms in leaf movements. Plant Cell 16:1550-1563. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Michael, T.P., P.A. Salomé, H.J. Yu, T.R. Spencer, E.L. Sharp, J.M. Alonso, J.R. Ecker & C.R. McClung. 2003. Enhanced fitness conferred by naturally occurring variation in the circadian clock. Science 302: 1049-1053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Michael, T.P., P.A. Salomé & C.R. McClung. 2003. Two Arabidopsis circadian oscillators can be distinguished by differential temperature sensitivity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100: 6878-6883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Figure]

Michael, T.P. & C.R. McClung. 2003. Enhancer trapping reveals widespread circadian clock transcriptional control in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 132: 629-639. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplementary Data] [On The Inside]

Langmead, C.J., A.K. Yan, C.R. McClung & B. R. Donald. 2003. Phase-Independent Rhythmic Analysis of Genome-Wide Expression Patterns. J. Comput. Biol. 10:521-536. [Download PDF] [Download Software]

Salomé, P.A., T.P. Michael, E.V. Kearns, A.G. Fett-Neto, R.A. Sharrock, & C.R. McClung. 2002. The out of phase 1 (oop1) mutant defines a role for PHYB in circadian phase control in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 129: 1674-1685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [On The Inside]

Michael, T.P. & C.R. McClung. 2002. Phase-specific circadian clock regulatory elements in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 130:627-638. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Langmead, C.J., C.R. McClung & B.R. Donald. 2002. A maximum entropy algorithm for rhythmic analysis of genome-wide expression patterns. IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference, CSB2002, Stanford University, Palo Alto. August 14-16, 2002. pp. 237-245. [Download PDF] [Download Software]

Langmead, C.J., A.K. Yan, C.R. McClung & B. R. Donald. 2002. Phase-Independent Rhythmic Analysis of Genome-Wide Expression Patterns. The Sixth Annual International Conference on Computaional Molecular Biology (RECOMB), April 18-21, 2002. Washington DC,. ACM Press, pp. 205-215. [Full Text] [Download Software]

Ubalijoro, E., C. Hamel, C.R. McClung & D.L. Smith. 2001. Detection of chitin synthase class I and II type sequences in six different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and gene expression in Glomus intraradices. Mycol. Res. 105: 470-476. [Abstract] [Full Text]

McClung, C.R., Hsu, M., Painter, J.E., Gagne, J.M. Karlsberg, S.D. & P.A. Salomé. 2000. Integrated temporal regulation of the photorespiratory pathway: circadian regulation of two Arabidopsis genes encoding serine hydroxymethyltransferase. Plant Physiol. 123: 381-391. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Frugoli, J.A., M.A. McPeek, T.L. Thomas & C.R. McClung. 1998. Intron loss and gain during evolution of the catalase gene family in Angiosperms. Genetics 148: 355-365. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., J.E. Painter, P.A. Salome, M. Straume & C.R. McClung. 1998. Imbibition, but not release from stratification, sets the circadian clock in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Cell 10: 2005-2017. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., A.S. Resnick, M. Straume & C.R. McClung. 1997. Effects of synergistic signaling by Phytochrome A and Cryptochrome 1 on circadian clock-regulated catalase expression. Plant Cell 9:947-955. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Frugoli, J.A., H.H. Zhong, M.L. Nuccio, P. McCourt, M.A. McPeek, T.L. Thomas & C.R. McClung. 1996. Catalase is encoded by a multi-gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. Plant Physiol. 112:327-336. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Liu, Z., C.C. Taub & C.R. McClung. 1996. Identification of an Arabidopsis Rubisco Activase (RCA) minimal promoter regulated by light and the circadian clock. Plant Physiol. 112:43-51. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., & C.R. McClung. 1996. The circadian clock gates expression of two Arabidopsis catalase genes to distinct and opposite circadian phases. Mol. Gen. Genet. 251:196-203. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., J.C. Young, E.A. Pease, R.P. Hangarter & C.R. McClung. 1994. Interactions between light and the circadian clock in the regulation of CAT2 expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 104:889-898. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Pilgrim, M.L., & C.R. McClung. 1993. Differential involvement of the circadian clock in the expression of genes required for ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase synthesis, assembly, and activation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 103:553-564. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Pilgrim, M.L., T. Caspar, P.H. Quail & C.R. McClung. 1993. Circadian and light regulated expression of nitrate reductase in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol. Biol. 23:349-364. [Abstract]

McClung, C.R., B.A. Fox & J.C. Dunlap. 1989. The Neurospora clock gene frequency shares a sequence element with the Drosophila clock gene period. Nature 339:558-562. Click here to view a Nice Image.

Review Articles

McClung, C.R. 2008. Comes a time. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 11: 514-520. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2007. The cyanobacterial circadian clock is based on the intrinsic ATPase activity of KaiC. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 16727-16728. [Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2006. Two-component signaling provides the major output from the cyanobacterial circadian clock.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 11819-11820. [Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2006. Plant circadian rhythms. Plant Cell 18: 792-803. [Full Text]

Salomé, P.A. & C.R. McClung. 2005. What makes Arabidopsis tick: light and temperature entrainment of the circadian clock. Plant Cell Environ. 28:21-38. [Download PDF]

Salomé, P.A. & C.R. McClung. 2004. The Arabidopsis thaliana clock. J. Biol. Rhythms 19:425-435. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R., Salomé, P.A., & T.P. Michael. 2002. The Arabidopsis Circadian System. In: The Arabidopsis Book, eds. C.R. Somerville and E.M. Meyerowitz, American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville, MD, DOI/10.1199/tab.0044 [Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2001. Circadian rhythms in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 52:139-162. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R. 2000. Plant circadian clocks: a millennial view. Physiol. Plant. 109: 359-371. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R. 1998. It's about time: putative components of an Arabidopsis circadian clock. Trends Plant Sci. 3: 454-456. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R. 1997. The regulation of catalase in Arabidopsis. Free Radical Biology & Medicine 23:489-496. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R., & S.A. Kay. 1994. Circadian rhythms in the higher plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. In: C.R. Somerville & E. Meyerowitz, eds, Arabidopsis thaliana, pp. 615-637. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

McClung, C. R. 1993. The higher plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, as a model system for the molecular analysis of circadian rhythms. In: M. Young, ed., The molecular genetics of biological rhythms, pp. 1-35. Marcel Dekker, New York.

updated October 11, 2008