The isiB gene encoding flavodoxin is not essential for photoautotrophic iron limited growth of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-235

  Kutzki, Carolin ^a   Masepohl, Bernd ^a   Böhme, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Flavodoxin; Interposon mutagenesis; Iron limitation; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Indexed keywords

FLAVODOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; IRON METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; FLAVODOXIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 0032521070     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00036-6     Document Type: Article

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