Bacterial circadian programs / Jayna L. Ditty, Shannon R. Mackey, Carl H. Johnson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ditty, Jayna L.

Mackey, Shannon R.

Johnson, Carl Hirschie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bacteria.

Cyanobacteria.

Circadian rhythms.

Bacterial Physiological Phenomena.

Cyanobacteria--physiology.

Circadian Rhythm--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Bacterial Physiological Phenomena.

Cyanobacteria--physiology.

Circadian Rhythm--physiology.

Physical Description:

xi, 333 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

Since the discovery of circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria in the late 1980s, the field has exploded with new information. The cyanobacterial model system for studying circadian rhythms, Synechococcus elongatus, has allowed a detailed genetic dissection of the bacterial-clock due to the methods currently available in molecular, structural, and evolutionary biology.

This book addresses multiple aspects of bacterial circadian programs: the history and background of the cyanobacteria and circadian rhythms in microorganisms, the molecular basis, structure, and evolution of the circadian clock, entrainment of the oscillator with the environment and the control of downstream processes by the clock, the demonstration of adaptive significance and the prokaryotic clock's remarkable stability, and mathematical and synthetic oscillator models for clock function.

Experts in the field provide a timely and comprehensive review and a stepping-stone for future work on this amazing group of microorganisms and timing.

Contents:

1 Classic Circadian Characteristics: Historical Perspective and Properties Relative to the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 Model / Jayna L. Ditty, Shannon R. Mackey 1

2 Speculation and Hoopla: Is Diversity Expected in Cyanobacterial Circadian Timing Systems? / Stanly B. Williams 19

3 Circadian Rhythm of Cyanothece RF-1 (Synechococcus RF-1) / Tan-Chi Huang, Rong-Fong Lin 39

4 The Decade of Discovery: How Synechococcus elongatus Became a Model Circadian System 1990-2000 / Carl Hirschie Johnson, Yao Xu 63

5 The Kai Oscillator / Tokitaka Oyama, Takao Kondo 87

6 NMR Studies of a Timekeeping System / Ioannis Vakonakis, Andy LiWang 103

7 Structural Aspects of the Cyanobacterial KaiABC Circadian Clock / Martin Egli, Phoebe L. Stewart 121

8 Mechanisms for Entraining the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock System with the Environment / Shannon R. Mackey, Jayna L. Ditty, Gil Zeidner, You Chen, Susan S. Golden 141

9 Factors Involved in Transcriptional Output from the Kai-Protein-Based Circadian Oscillator / Hideo Iwasaki 157

10 Chromosome Compaction: Output and Phase / Rachelle M. Smith, Stanly B. Williams 169

11 Cell Division Cycles and Circadian Rhythms / Tetsuya Mori 183

12 The Adaptive Value of the Circadian Clock System in Cyanobacteria / Mark A. Woelfle, Carl Hirschie Johnson 205

13 Stability and Noise in the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock / Irina Mihalcescu 223

14 The Circadian Clock Gear in Cyanobacteria: Assembled by Evolution / Volodymyr Dvornyk 241

15 Circadian Clocks of Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803, Thermosynechococcus elongatus, Prochlorococcus spp., Trichodesmium spp. and Other Species / Setsuyuki Aoki, Kiyoshi Onai 259

16 Mathematical Modeling of the In Vitro Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator / Mark Byrne 283

17 A Synthetic Biology Approach to Understanding Biological Oscillations: Developing a Genetic Oscillator for Escherichia coli / Alexander J. Ninfa, Mariette R. Atkinson, Daniel Forger, Stephen Atkins, David Arps, Stephen Selinsky, Donald Court, Nicolas Perry, Avraham E. Mayo 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783540884309

3540884300

3540884319

9783540884316

OCLC:

295001076