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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009

Oscillations in supercoiling drive circadian gene expression in cyanobacteria.

Vikram Vijayan, Rick Zuzow, Erin K O'Shea

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers.

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114 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Vikram VijayanGraduate Program in Systems Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology, Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Rick Zuzow
Erin K O'Shea

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 exhibits oscillations in mRNA transcript abundance with 24-h periodicity under continuous light conditions. The mechanism underlying these oscillations remains elusive--neither cis nor trans-factors controlling circadian gene expression phase have been identified. Here, we show that the topological status of the chromosome is highly correlated with circadian gene expression state. We also demonstrate that DNA sequence characteristics of genes that appear monotonically activated and monotonically repressed by chromosomal relaxation during the circadian cycle are similar to those of supercoiling-responsive genes in Escherichia coli. Furthermore, perturbation of superhelical status within the physiological range elicits global changes in gene expression similar to those that occur during the normal circadian cycle.

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Genes, BacterialBase SequenceChromosomes, BacterialCircadian RhythmDNA, BacterialDNA PrimersDNA, SuperhelicalGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome-Wide Association StudyOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerSynechococcusSystems BiologyDNA, BacterialDNA PrimersDNA, SuperhelicalRNA, BacterialRNA, Messenger

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PMID20018699
PMCPMC2799730

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