A transcription factor with a Leucine-Zipper motif involved in light- dependent inhibition of expression of the puf operon in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 515-522

  Shimada, Hiroshi ^a,b   Wada, Tadashi ^a   Handa, Hiroshi ^a   Ohta, Hiroyuki ^a   Mizoguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Nishimura, Kohji ^a   Masuda, Tatsuru ^a   Shioi, Yuzo ^a   Takamiya, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA binding protein; Leucine zipper motif; puf operon; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0030174976     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a028974     Document Type: Article

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