Nucleotide Sequence and Transcriptional Analysis of the Flanking Region of the Gene (spb) for the trans-Acting Factor That Controls Light-Mediated Expression of the puf Operon in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 558-567

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

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Light regulation; Puf operon; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Signal transduction; Transcription factor; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HVRA PROTEIN, RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031136207     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029205     Document Type: Article

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