Nucleotide Sequences of Genes Coding for Photosynthetic Reaction Centers and Light-Harvesting Proteins of Acidiphilium rubrum and Related Aerobic Acidophilic Bacteria

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1249-1258

  Nagashima, Kenji V P ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a   Wakao, Norio ^b   Hiraishi, Akira ^c   Shimada, Keizo ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidiphilium; Bacteriochlorophyll; Nucleotide sequence; Photosynthetic bacteria; puf operon; Reaction center

Indexed keywords

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDIPHILIUM ANGUSTUM; ACIDIPHILIUM CRYPTUM; ACIDIPHILIUM MULTIVORUM; ACIDIPHILIUM ORGANOVORUM; ACIDIPHILIUM RUBRUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETICS; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031266281     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029112     Document Type: Article

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