Expression of the puf operon in an aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Roseobacter denitrificans

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-159

  Nishimura, Kohji ^a   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a   Masuda, Tatsura ^a   Shioi, Yuzo ^a   Takamiya, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerobic photosynthetic bacterium; Gene expression; Light inhibition; Oxygen insensitivity; puf operon; Roseobacter denitrificans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX 1, RHODOSPIRILLUM; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX 1, RHODOSPIRILLUM; OXYGEN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0030097379     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a028926     Document Type: Article

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