Article
Circadian rhythms in rapidly dividing cyanobacteria.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 10 Jan 1997
Kondo T, Mori T, Lebedeva N V, Aoki S, Ishiura M, Golden S S
Abstract excerpt
The long-standing supposition that the biological clock cannot function in cells that divide more rapidly than the circadian cycle was investigated. During exponential growth in which the generation time was 10 hours, the profile of bioluminescence from a reporter strain of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus (species PCC 7942) matched a model based on the assumption that cells proliferate exponentially and the...
Topics
- Cell Division
- Circadian Rhythm
- Cyanobacteria
- Genes, Reporter
- Luciferases
- Luminescence
- Mutation
- Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins
- Photosystem II Protein Complex
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Messenger