Growth on urea can trigger death and peroxidation of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2361-2366

  Sakamoto, Toshio ^a   Delgaizo, Victoria B ^a   Bryant, Donald A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; LIPID PEROXIDE; PARAQUAT; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UREA; UREASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEACHING; CELL DEATH; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLYSIS; DELETION MUTANT; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDATION; PIGMENTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

EID: 0031814280     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2361-2366.1998     Document Type: Article

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