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Live-cell fluorescence microscopy revealed that nuclear import of the key circadian protein PER2 is fast and further accelerated by CRY1. Moreover, PER2 nuclear import is critically dependent on a specific nuclear receptor binding motif in PER2 that also mediates nuclear immobility. 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