SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
A Clock with a Flip Switch
Andy C. Poon and James E. Ferrell Jr.,
The heart of circadian timekeeping in cyanobacteria is a toggle switch that controls the periodic phosphorylation of a key circuit protein.
The authors are in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5174, USA. E-mail: james.ferrell{at}stanford.edu