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Reagents and tools table

Reagent/resource Reference or source Identifier or catalog number
Experimental models
Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 kaiABCΔ Obtained from Johnson CH Lab N/A
Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 strain harbouring a luxAB reporter (PkaiBC::luxAB) Obtained from Johnson CH Lab N/A
Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 kaiABCΔ: kaiABC This study N/A
Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 kaiABCΔ: ankaiABC This study N/A
PCR primers
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmids pKai-TR-ankaiABC and pKai-TR-ankaiBC (V-A-homo-F) This study 5’-cagcggcggaggaactctttga-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmids pKai-TR-ankaiABC and pKai-TR-ankaiBC (V-A-homo-R) This study 5’-tcaaagagttcctccgccgctg-3’
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (V-A-F) This study 5’-aaaggtaaaggaggtcttaagctcgg-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmids pKai-TR-ankaiABC and pKai-TR-ankaiBC (V-A-R) This study 5’-gcagtcgctcctgtcaggac-3’
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (V-B-F) This study 5’-ctgtcgttaactgctttgttggtact-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (V-B-R) This study 5’-acgcagatcaacggggtagca-3’
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (V-C10-F) This study 5’-agctttatgcttgtaaaccgttttgt-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (V-C10-R) This study 5’-cttaaaagagggtgaagtcaggtagt-3’
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (An-A10-F) This study 5’-gtcctgacaggagcgactgcatgttatctgccttaacgatct-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (An-A10-R) This study 5‘-ttaagacctcctttacctttttaagaagaaacctcagagtc-3’
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (An-B10-F) This study 5’-gctaccccgttgatctgcgtatgagcccgctgcgcaaaaccta-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (An-B10-R) This study 5’- aacaaagcagttaacgacagttacggatcgctatccggc-3’
Forward primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (An-C10-F) This study 5’-tgacttcaccctcttttaagatgaccagcctggcggaacat-3’
Reverse primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiABC (An-C10-R) This study 5’-cggtttacaagcataaagctttagctttccggttctttttcc-3’
Forword primer for construction of cyanobacterial transformation plasmid pKai-TR-ankaiBC (anBC-F) This study 5’-gacaggagcgactgcaaaggtaaaggaggtcttaagctcgg-3’
Reverse primer of KaiA for genotyping (cpWt1-F) This study 5’-tgaaccagccaaagaaca-3’
Reverse primer of KaiA for genotyping (cpWt1-R) This study 5’-ggaacatcggcaaagaaa-3’
anKaiB+anKaiC for genotyping (anAn1-F) This study 5’-gaactgctgctggatgat-3’
anKaiB+anKaiC for genotyping (anAn1-R) This study 5’-gatccaccagtttctggca-3’
Recombinant DNA
pGEX-6P-1 Addgene Cat#: 27-4597-01
pGEX-6P-1-kaiC This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-kaiA This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-kaiB This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-anKaiC This study N/A
pLou3-ankaiA This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-ankaiB This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-kaiC-V118A This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-kaiC-S229T This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-kaiC-T240N This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-KaiC-S229T-T240N This study N/A
pGEX-6P-1-psp This study N/A
pRK793 Addgene Cat#: 8827
pKai-TR-kaiABC Obtained from Johnson CH Lab Nishimura et al, 2002
pKai-TR-ankaiABC This study N/A
pKai-TR-ankaiBC This study N/A
Antibodies
Rabbit anti-KaiC 1:5000 for immunoblotting This study N/A
Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG (H + L)-HRP Conjugate Bio-Rad Cat#:170-6515
Chemicals, enzymes and other reagents
TransStart® Taq DNA Polymerase TransGen Biotech AP141-13
FastPure EndoFree Plasmid Midi Kit Vazyme DC205-01
BG11 Hopebio HB8793
Agar Powder Hopebio HB8274
Chloramphenicol Sangon Biotech A100230
Spectinomycin Sangon Biotech A600901
Kanamycin Sangon Biotech A600286
Agar Sangon Biotech A505255
Tryptone Oxoid LP0042B
Yeast extract Oxoid LP0021
NaCl Sangon Biotech A501218
Tris Sangon Biotech A600194
IPTG Dioxane Free Sangon Biotech A600168
Bam HI New England Biolabs R3136V
Sac I New England Biolabs R3156S
Glutathione reduced Sangon Biotech A600229
Glutathione Sepharose 4B Coolaber CS20421
ATP Sigma-Aldrich A1852
ADP Sigma-Aldrich A2754
Software
SnapGene SnapGene Software https://www.snapgene.com/
ImageJ National Institutes of Health https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/
R software R Foundation Statutes https://www.r-project.org/
GraphPad Prism 8 Graphpad Software https://graphpad.com
CRYSON Svergun et al, 1998 https://www.embl-hamburg.de/biosaxs/cryson.html
SasView SasView Software https://www.sasview.org/
Other
anKaiC structure This study PDB:8JON
KaiC structure Swan et al, 2022 PDB:7S67