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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Tuning the circadian period of cyanobacteria up to 6.6 days by the single amino acid substitutions in KaiC.

Kumiko Ito-Miwa, Yoshihiko Furuike, Shuji Akiyama, Takao Kondo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Phenotypic Landscape of a Circadian Clock.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Intrinsic period stability of the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator across in vitro and in vivo conditions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. A Compensated Clock: Temperature and Nutritional Compensation Mechanisms Across Circadian Systems.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  9. The cyanobacterial circadian clock.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025
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  11. Temperature compensation through kinetic regulation in biochemical oscillators.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  13. The inner workings of an ancient biological clock.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2024
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  16. KidA, a multi-PAS domain protein, tunes the period of the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  19. Circadian rhythms in infectious diseases and symbiosis.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2022
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  20. Regulation mechanisms of the dual ATPase in KaiC.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kumiko Ito-MiwaDivision of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science and Institute for Advanced Studies, Nagoya University, 464-8602 Nagoya, Japan; miwa@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp kondo@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-3579-1311
Yoshihiko FuruikeResearch Center of Integrative Molecular Systems, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute of Natural Sciences, 444-8585 Okazaki, Japan.
Shuji AkiyamaResearch Center of Integrative Molecular Systems, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute of Natural Sciences, 444-8585 Okazaki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7184-189X
Takao KondoDivision of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science and Institute for Advanced Studies, Nagoya University, 464-8602 Nagoya, Japan; miwa@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp kondo@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-1813-4678
Nagoya University · JPNational Institutes of Natural Sciences · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The circadian clock of cyanobacteria consists of only three clock proteins, KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC, which generate a circadian rhythm of KaiC phosphorylation in vitro. The adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity of KaiC is the source of the 24-h period and temperature compensation. Although numerous circadian mutants of KaiC have been identified, the tuning mechanism of the 24-h period remains unclear. Here, we show that the circadian period of in vitro phosphorylation rhythm of mutants at position 402 of KaiC changed dramatically, from 15 h (0.6 d) to 158 h (6.6 d). The ATPase activities of mutants at position 402 of KaiC, without KaiA and KaiB, correlated with the frequencies (1/period), indicating that KaiC structure was the source of extra period change. Despite the wide-range tunability, temperature compensation of both the circadian period and the KaiC ATPase activity of mutants at position 402 of KaiC were nearly intact. We also found that in vivo and in vitro circadian periods and the KaiC ATPase activity of mutants at position 402 of KaiC showed a correlation with the side-chain volume of the amino acid at position 402 of KaiC. Our results indicate that residue 402 is a key position of determining the circadian period of cyanobacteria, and it is possible to dramatically alter the period of KaiC while maintaining temperature compensation.

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Adenosine TriphosphatasesAmino Acid SubstitutionBacterial ProteinsCircadian ClocksCircadian RhythmCircadian Rhythm Signaling Peptides and ProteinsCyanobacteriaGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMutationPhosphorylationSynechococcusAdenosine TriphosphatasesBacterial ProteinsCircadian Rhythm Signaling Peptides and ProteinsKaiC protein, cyanobacteriaATPasecircadian clockcyanobacteriaKaiCperiod

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PMID32747571
PMCPMC7456120
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