The cyanobacterial circadian system: From biophysics to bioevolution

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-167

  Johnson, Carl Hirschie ^a,b   Stewart, Phoebe L ^b   Egli, Martin ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell division; cyanobacteria; in vitro oscillators; Kai; KaiABC

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; KAIA PROTEIN; KAIB PROTEIN; KAIC PROTEIN; MONOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

CYANOBACTERIA; KAIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955840690     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-042910-155317     Document Type: Article

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