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Shifting nanoscopic clock gears

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A recent report looks at a 'clock in a test tube' composed of the cyanobacterial proteins KaiA, KaiB and KaiC, revealing that these dancing proteins swap partners to keep track of time.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the KaiABC central oscillator.

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Golden, S., Cassone, V. & LiWang, A. Shifting nanoscopic clock gears. Nat Struct Mol Biol 14, 362–363 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0507-362

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