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Timing the day: what makes bacterial clocks tick?

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Johnson, Carl Hirschie, Zhao, Chi, Xu, Yao, Mori, Tetsuya·2017·Nature Reviews Microbiology

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Chronobiological studies of prokaryotic organisms have generally lagged far behind the study of endogenous circadian clocks in eukaryotes, in which such systems are essentially ubiquitous. However, despite only being studied during the past 25 years, cyanobacteria have become important model organisms for the study of circadian rhythms and, presently, their timekeeping mechanism is the best understood of any system in terms of biochemistry, structural biology, biophysics and adaptive importance. Nevertheless, intrinsic daily rhythmicity among bacteria other than cyanobacteria is essentially unknown; some tantalizing information suggests widespread daily timekeeping among Eubacteria and Archaea through mechanisms that share common elements with the cyanobacterial clock but are distinct. Moreover, the recent surge of information about microbiome-host interactions has largely neglected the temporal dimension and yet daily cycles control important aspects of their relationship.

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  • These biologic rhythms are regulated by diet and time of feeding rather than environmental 24-hour light-dark cycles.

    “regulated by diet and time of feeding rather than environmental 24-hour light-dark cycles (Voigt et al., 2016;Johnson et al., 2017).”

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  • Gut microbiota community structure and metabolic activity feature biologic rhythms.

    “gut microbiota community structure and metabolic activity also feature biologic rhythms”

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  • Microbial enzymatic activity may also be influenced by circadian rhythms.

    “this may also be true of microbial enzymatic activity because gut microbiota community structure and metabolic activity also feature biologic rhythms”

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Authors
Johnson, C. H., Zhao, C., Xu, Y., & Mori, T.
Affiliations
Vanderbilt University (US)
Corresponding author
Johnson, Carl Hirschie
Venue
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Published
2017-04
Volume
15
Issue
4
Pages
232-242
ISSN
  • 1740-1526 (ISSN-L)
  • 1740-1534
OpenAlex
W2588292464
Cited by
123
References
102
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 7
FWCI
1.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM107434, R01GM067152, R01GM088595, R37GM067152)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54HD083211)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Light effects on plants
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Keywords
circadian rhythm, cyanobacteria, microbiota, microbiome-host interactions, archaea, eubacteria, chronobiology
MeSH terms
Cyanobacteria, Bacterial Proteins, Circadian Rhythm, Light, Circadian Rhythm Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Circadian Clocks

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