Genome-wide identification of major protein families of cyanobacteria and genomic insight into the circadian rhythm

TK Mohanta, RN Pudake, H Bae - European Journal of Phycology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cyanobacteria are among the most abundant organisms present on earth and are
considered to be one of the oldest known clades. Cyanobacteria are oxygenic …

Evolution of kaiA, a key circadian gene of cyanobacteria

V Dvornyk, Q Mei - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The circadian system of cyanobacteria is built upon a central oscillator consisting of three
genes, kaiA, kaiB, and kaiC. The KaiA protein plays a key role in phosphorylation …

Biochemical analysis of three putative KaiC clock proteins from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 suggests their functional divergence

A Wiegard, AK Dörrich, HT Deinzer, C Beck… - …, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
Cyanobacteria have been shown to have a circadian clock system that consists mainly of
three protein components: KaiA, KaiB and KaiC. This system is well understood in the …

[HTML][HTML] Two KaiA-binding domains of cyanobacterial circadian clock protein KaiC

Y Taniguchi, A Yamaguchi, A Hijikata, H Iwasaki… - FEBS letters, 2001 - Elsevier
kaiABC, a gene cluster, encodes KaiA, KaiB and KaiC proteins that are essential to
circadian rhythms in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 …

Genes controlling circadian rhythm are widely distributed in cyanobacteria

J Lorne, J Scheffer, A Lee, M Painter… - FEMS microbiology …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The kaiABC gene cluster is important for maintaining circadian rhythms in the
cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942. An extensive PCR-based survey of …

Functional divergence of the circadian clock proteins in prokaryotes

V Dvornyk, B Knudsen - Genetica, 2005 - Springer
Cyanobacteria are only prokaryotes known so far to have a circadian system. It may be
based either on two (kaiB and kaiC) or three (kaiA, kaiB and kaiC) circadian genes. The …

[HTML][HTML] Physical interactions among circadian clock proteins KaiA, KaiB and KaiC in cyanobacteria

H Iwasaki, Y Taniguchi, M Ishiura, T Kondo - The EMBO Journal, 1999 - embopress.org
The kai gene cluster, which is composed of three genes, kaiA, kaiB and kaiC, is essential for
the generation of circadian rhythms in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp …

Minimal tool set for a prokaryotic circadian clock

NM Schmelling, R Lehmann, P Chaudhury… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2017 - Springer
Background Circadian clocks are found in organisms of almost all domains including
photosynthetic Cyanobacteria, whereby large diversity exists within the protein components …

Dual KaiC-based oscillations constitute the circadian system of cyanobacteria

Y Kitayama, T Nishiwaki, K Terauchi… - Genes & …, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
In the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, the KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC
proteins are essential for the generation of circadian rhythms. Both in vivo and in vitro …

[HTML][HTML] KaiC from a cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa sp. PCC 7428 retains functional and structural properties required as the core of circadian clock system

A Mukaiyama, D Ouyang, Y Furuike… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
KaiC, the core protein of the cyanobacterial clock, assembles into a hexamer upon ATP-
binding. The hexameric KaiC from a cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 …