Phytobilin biosynthesis: The Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 heme oxygenase-encoding ho1 gene complements a phytochrome-deficient Arabidopsis thaliana hy1 mutant

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-120

  Willows, Robert D ^a,c   Mayer, Sandra M ^a   Foulk, Michael S ^a   DeLong, Alison ^a   Hanson, Kimberly ^b   Chory, Joanne ^b   Beale, Samuel I ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Phytochrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BILIVERDIN; CHIMERIC GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HEME OXYGENASE; HO1 GENE; HY1 GENE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYTOBILIN CHROMOPHORE; PHYTOCHROME; PLASMID VECTOR; PROMOTER REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOCHROME; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 0033905732     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006489129449     Document Type: Article

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