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ReviewTrends in biochemical sciences2024

The inner workings of an ancient biological clock.

Mingxu Fang, Andy LiWang, Susan S Golden, Carrie L Partch

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Review in Trends in biochemical sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Temporal regulation of metabolic processes in the marine diazotrophbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mingxu FangDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Center for Circadian Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Andy LiWangCenter for Circadian Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California - Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA; Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines, University of California - Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA.
Susan S GoldenDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Center for Circadian Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Carrie L PartchCenter for Circadian Biology, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. Electronic address: cpartch@ucsc.edu.
University of California San Diego · USUniversity of California, Merced · USUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · US

Funding

Undergraduate Summer Research Experience: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of circadian timekeeping in a prokaryote modelR35GM118290 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GOLDEN, SUSAN S · 2016 to 2025
$6.7M
Structures and mechanisms of circadian rhythms from cyanobacteria to humansR35GM141849 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI PARTCH, CARRIE L · 2021 to 2025
$4.6M
Temperature and metabolic compensation mechanisms in a circadian clock systemR35GM144110 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED · PI Andy LiWang · 2022 to 2026
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118290NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141849NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM144110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circadian clocks evolved in diverse organisms as an adaptation to the daily swings in ambient light and temperature that derive from Earth's rotation. These timing systems, based on intracellular molecular oscillations, synchronize organisms' behavior and physiology with the 24-h environmental rhythm. The cyanobacterial clock serves as a special model for understanding circadian rhythms because it can be fully reconstituted in vitro. This review summarizes recent advances that leverage new biochemical, biophysical, and mathematical approaches to shed light on the molecular mechanisms of cyanobacterial Kai proteins that support the clock, and their homologues in other bacteria. Many questions remain in circadian biology, and the tools developed for the Kai system will bring us closer to the answers.

Indexed as

Circadian ClocksCyanobacteriaBacterial ProteinsCircadian RhythmCircadian Rhythm Signaling Peptides and ProteinsBacterial ProteinsCircadian Rhythm Signaling Peptides and Proteinscircadiancompetitioncooperativitycyanobacteriafold switchoscillator

Identifiers

PMID38185606
PMCPMC10939747
OpenAlexW4390638868

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Registered trials

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