Abstract：
:Circadian clocks generate reliable ~24-h rhythms despite being based on stochastic biochemical reactions. The circadian clock in Synechococcus elongatus uses a post-translational oscillator that cycles deterministically in a test tube. Because the volume of a single bacterial cell is much smaller than a macroscopic reaction, we asked how clocks in single cells function reliably. Here, we show that S. elongatus cells must express many thousands of copies of Kai proteins to effectively suppress timing errors. Stochastic modeling shows that this requirement stems from noise amplification in the post-translational feedback loop that sustains oscillations. The much smaller cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus expresses only hundreds of Kai protein copies and has a simpler, hourglass-like Kai system. We show that this timer strategy can outperform a free-running clock if internal noise is significant. This conclusion has implications for clock evolution and synthetic oscillator design, and it suggests hourglass-like behavior may be widespread in microbes.
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Nat Communjournal_title
Nature communicationsauthors
Chew J,Leypunskiy E,Lin J,Murugan A,Rust MJdoi
10.1038/s41467-018-05109-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-08-01 00:00:00pages
3004issue
1issn
2041-1723pii
10.1038/s41467-018-05109-4journal_volume
9pub_type
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