FB2026_02 , released June 18, 2026
Gene: Dpse\per
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General Information
Symbol
Dpse\per
Species
D. pseudoobscura pseudoobscura
Name
period
Annotation Symbol
Feature Type
protein_coding_gene
FlyBase ID
FBgn0012735
Gene Model Status
Withdrawn
Stock Availability
None publicly available
Gene Summary
Essential for biological clock functions. Determines the period length of circadian and ultradian rhythms; an increase in PER dosage leads to shortened circadian rhythms and a decrease leads to lengthened circadian rhythms. Essential for the circadian rhythmicity of locomotor activity, eclosion behavior, and for the rhythmic component of the male courtship song that originates in the thoracic nervous system. The biological cycle depends on the rhythmic formation and nuclear localization of the TIM-PER complex. Light induces the degradation of TIM, which promotes elimination of PER. Nuclear activity of the heterodimer coordinatively regulates PER and TIM transcription through a negative feedback loop. Behaves as a negative element in circadian transcriptional loop. Does not appear to bind DNA, suggesting indirect transcriptional inhibition (By similarity). (UniProt, P12348)
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per

Summaries
Protein Function (UniProtKB)
Essential for biological clock functions. Determines the period length of circadian and ultradian rhythms; an increase in PER dosage leads to shortened circadian rhythms and a decrease leads to lengthened circadian rhythms. Essential for the circadian rhythmicity of locomotor activity, eclosion behavior, and for the rhythmic component of the male courtship song that originates in the thoracic nervous system. The biological cycle depends on the rhythmic formation and nuclear localization of the TIM-PER complex. Light induces the degradation of TIM, which promotes elimination of PER. Nuclear activity of the heterodimer coordinatively regulates PER and TIM transcription through a negative feedback loop. Behaves as a negative element in circadian transcriptional loop. Does not appear to bind DNA, suggesting indirect transcriptional inhibition (By similarity).
(UniProt, P12348)
Alleles, Insertions, Transgenic Constructs, and Aberrations
Classical and Insertion Alleles ( 0 )
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Transgenic Constructs ( 2 )
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Transgenic constructs containing/affecting coding region of Dpse\per
Transgenic constructs containing regulatory region of Dpse\per
Aberrations (Deficiencies and Duplications) ( 0 )
Inferred from experimentation ( 0 )
Variants
Variant Molecular Consequences
Alleles Representing Disease-Implicated Variants
Phenotypes
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Other Phenotypes
Allele
abnormal locomotor rhythm
abnormal mating rhythm
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Orthologs
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Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly) (0)
Human Disease Associations
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    Functional Complementation Data
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    External Data
    Subunit Structure (UniProtKB)
    Forms a heterodimer with timeless (TIM); the complex then translocates into the nucleus.
    (UniProt, P12348 )
    Linkouts
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    Stocks and Reagents
    Stocks (0)
    Genomic Clones (0)
     
      cDNA Clones (0)
       

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          Drosophila Genomics Resource Center cDNA clones

          For each fully sequenced cDNA the DGRC maintains various forms of the cDNA (e.g tagged or untagged) in several different host vectors for subsequent cloning and expression in Drosophila and Drosophila cell lines.

            cDNA Clones, End Sequenced (ESTs)
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                    Other Comments

                    Study of per and Dpse\per fusions reveals striking phenotypic differences between transgenic flies, these difference support the idea of an intragenic coevolution between the repeat and flanking regions of the two genes.

                    (Peixoto et al., 1998)

                    The frequency distribution of "silent" DNA polymorphisms has been studied in a number of D.simulans and D.pseudoobscura.pseudoobscura genes.

                    (Akashi and Schaeffer, 1997)

                    The "Thr-Gly" region of the Dpse\per gene has been compared with the corresponding region of the per genes of a number of Dipteran species.

                    (Nielsen et al., 1994)

                    Dpse\per gene has been cloned and sequenced: comparison of the coding regions reveals a pattern of highly diverged areas interwoven with large conserved regions. Transformation experiments of Dpse\per into D.melanogaster per+ genomes demonstrates that Dpse\per encodes species specific qualitative behavioural instruction such as rhythm 'strength'.

                    (Kyriacou, 1990)

                    Dpse\per has been cloned and sequenced. Comparison with per reveals conserved regions interspersed with non-conserved regions.

                    (Colot et al., 1988)

                    Transformation experiments of Dpse\per into D.melanogaster suggest that the per gene encodes species-specific behavioural instructions.

                    (Petersen et al., 1988)
                    Relationship to Other Genes
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                    Nomenclature History
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                    Nomenclature comments
                    Etymology
                    Synonyms and Secondary IDs (8)
                    Reported As
                    Symbol Synonym
                    Dpse\GA15408
                    Dpse\per
                    (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2008)
                    GA15408
                    Per
                    (Rodriguez-Trelles et al., 1999)
                    dpse_GLEANR_626
                    (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2008)
                    per
                    (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2008, Bartolome and Charlesworth, 2006)
                    pse_per
                    (Paquet et al., 2008)
                    Name Synonyms
                    period
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                      External Crossreferences and Linkouts ( 90 )
                      Sequence Crossreferences
                      NCBI Gene - Gene integrates information from a wide range of species. A record may include nomenclature, Reference Sequences (RefSeqs), maps, pathways, variations, phenotypes, and links to genome-, phenotype-, and locus-specific resources worldwide.
                      GenBank Nucleotide - A collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA, and PDB.
                      GenBank Protein - A collection of sequences from several sources, including translations from annotated coding regions in GenBank, RefSeq and TPA, as well as records from SwissProt, PIR, PRF, and PDB.
                      UniProt/Swiss-Prot - Manually annotated and reviewed records of protein sequence and functional information
                      UniProt/TrEMBL - Automatically annotated and unreviewed records of protein sequence and functional information
                      Other crossreferences
                      FlyMine - An integrated database for Drosophila genomics
                      GNOMON -
                      • Dpse_gnomon_102_gene.19741100
                      InterPro - A database of protein families, domains and functional sites
                      References (40)