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Joseph S Markson1, Erin K O'Shea.
Abstract
The circadian clock of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 is governed by a core oscillator consisting of the proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC. Remarkably, circadian oscillations in the phosphorylation state of KaiC can be reconstituted in a test tube by mixing the three Kai proteins and adenosine triphosphate. The in vitro oscillator provides a well-defined system in which experiments can be combined with mathematical analysis to understand the mechanism of a highly robust biological oscillator. In this Review, we summarize the biochemistry of the Kai proteins and examine models that have been proposed to explain how oscillations emerge from the properties of the oscillator's constituents.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19913541 PMCID: PMC2810098 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124