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ATPase activity of KaiC determines the basic timing for circadian clock of cyanobacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Oct 2007
Terauchi Kazuki, Kitayama Yohko, Nishiwaki Taeko, Miwa Kumiko, Murayama Yoriko, Oyama Tokitaka, Kondo Takao
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Self-sustainable oscillation of KaiC phosphorylation has been reconstituted in vitro, demonstrating that this cycle is the basic time generator of the circadian clock of cyanobacteria. Here we show that the ATPase activity of KaiC satisfies the characteristics of the circadian oscillation, the period length, and the temperature compensation. KaiC possesses extremely weak but stable ATPase activity (15 molecules...
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