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SUBMITTER: Swan JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5892564 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Swan Jeffrey A JA Golden Susan S SS LiWang Andy A Partch Carrie L CL
The Journal of biological chemistry 20180213 14
Circadian rhythms enable cells and organisms to coordinate their physiology with the cyclic environmental changes that come as a result of Earth's light/dark cycles. Cyanobacteria make use of a post-translational oscillator to maintain circadian rhythms, and this elegant system has become an important model for circadian timekeeping mechanisms. Composed of three proteins, the KaiABC system undergoes an oscillatory biochemical cycle that provides timing cues to achieve a 24-h molecular clock. Tog ...[more]