Recent studies have unveiled the molecular machinery responsible for the biological clock
in cyanobacteria and found that it exerts pervasive control over cellular processes including …

Cyanobacteria have become a major model system for analyzing circadian rhythms. The
temporal program in this organism enhances fitness in rhythmic environments and is truly …

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep
every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …

The simple circadian oscillator found in cyanobacteria can be reconstituted in vitro using
three proteins—KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC. The total phosphorylation level of KaiC oscillates with …

In a recent series of ground-breaking experiments, Nakajima et al.[Nakajima M, Imai K, Ito H,
Nishiwaki T, Murayama Y, Iwasaki H, Oyama T, Kondo T (2005) Science 308: 414–415] …

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 …

To introduce this special issue on biological switches and clocks, we review the historical
development of mathematical models of bistability and oscillations in chemical reaction …

Autocatalysis is a fundamental concept, used in a wide range of domains. From the most
general definition of autocatalysis, that is, a process in which a chemical compound is able …

When UV–vis radiation interacts with matter, it can play as either a pump, or a developer, or
a signal. In this paper, we show that when UV–vis radiation interacts with very-far-from …

The cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus uses both a protein phosphorylation cycle
and a transcription–translation cycle to generate circadian rhythms that are highly robust …