I recently mentioned a study reporting circadian oscillations of bacterial clock-proteins KaiA, KaiB and KaiC in a dish with no transcription and translation whatsoever - the oscillations being due entirely to polymerization of proteins. Now, a mathematical model of this system has also been published describing how the working of the system is possible.
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Functioning and robustness of a bacterial circadian clock
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