Lego clocks: Building a clock from parts

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1422-1426

  Brunner, Michael ^a   Simons, Mirre J P ^b   Merrow, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Cyanobacteria; KaiC phosphorylation; Transcription and translation oscillation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CLOCK PROTEIN KAIA; CLOCK PROTEIN KAIB; CLOCK PROTEIN KAIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EUKARYOTE; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

EID: 44849108911     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1686608     Document Type: Review

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