Identification of two classes of transcriptional regulator genes in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 58-63

  Anandan, Shivanthi ^a   Nalty, Mark S ^a   Cogdell, David E ^a   Golden, Susan S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CheY; Cyanobacteria; LysR; OmpR; Response regulator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA BINDING; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

EID: 0029742387     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050355     Document Type: Article

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