Transcriptional control of expression of genes for photosynthetic reaction center and light-harvesting proteins in the purple bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2778-2786

  Masuda, Shinji ^a   Nagashima, Kenji V P ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHODOBACTER; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOVULUM SULFIDOPHILUM;

EID: 0034055888     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.10.2778-2786.2000     Document Type: Article

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