Low-temperature-induced desaturation of fatty acids and expression of desaturase genes in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 313-320

  Sakamoto, Toshio ^a   Higashi, Shoichi ^b   Wada, Hajime ^b   Murata, Norio ^b   Bryant, Donald A ^a  

^a Dept Biochem Molec Biol P ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Fatty acid desaturasc; Gene regulation; Homeoviscous adaptation; Low temperature acclimatization

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; FATTY ACID; MEMBRANE LIPID; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH RATE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

COLD; CYANOBACTERIA; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; LIPID METABOLISM; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 7002;

EID: 0030741453     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00217-6     Document Type: Article

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