Composition of the carbohydrate granules of the cyanobacterium, Cyanothece sp.strain ATCC 51142

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 167, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 89-98

  Schneegurt, Mark A ^a,c   Sherman, Debra M ^b   Sherman, Louis A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian rhythms; cyanobacteria; Cyanothece; glycogen; nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCOGEN;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

NASA DISCIPLINE CELL BIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 93-10; NASA PROGRAM NSCORT; NON-NASA CENTER;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE;

EID: 0030937249     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050420     Document Type: Article

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