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🕒 It’s critically important for all living things to track the time of day, but how can build build a clock out of chemistry alone? Let’s meet the simplest and best understood circadian clock protein: KaiC. Found in the cyanobacteria Synechococcus Elongatus, this chemical clock uses incredibly well-balanced biochemistry to achieve a perfect 24 hour cycle of oscillation. Let’s discover how.



📚Primary Works Cited:



The inner workings of an ancient biological clock
https://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/abstract/S0968-0004(23)00302-X
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Jun Abe et al. ,Atomic-scale origins of slowness in the cyanobacterial circadian clock.Science349,312-316(2015).DOI:10.1126/science.1261040



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