Circadian expression of genes involved in the purine biosynthetic pathway of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1071-1081

  Liu, Yi ^a,d   Tsinoremas, Nicholas F ^b   Golden, Susan S ^b   Kondo, Takao ^c   Johnson, Carl Hirschie ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REPORTER GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PURINES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

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

EID: 0030005494     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02547.x     Document Type: Article

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