Transcriptional analysis of the isiAB operon in salt-stressed cells of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 323-330

  Vinnemeier, Josef ^a   Kunert, Anja ^a   Hagemann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Flavodoxin; Iron stress; isiA; Salt stress; Synechocystis

Indexed keywords

IRON; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SALINITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; FLAVODOXIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032449840     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00478-9     Document Type: Article

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